18 Facts About Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers".

Wallace Stegner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the US National Book Award in 1977.

Wallace Stegner says he "lived in twenty places in eight states and Canada".

Wallace Stegner was the son of Hilda and George Stegner.

Wallace Stegner was inducted into the Sigma Nu Hall of Honor at the 68th Grand Chapter in Washington DC Wallace Stegner studied at the University of Iowa, where he received a master's degree in 1932 and a doctorate in 1935.

Wallace Stegner died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on April 13,1993, as the result of a car accident on March 28,1993.

Wallace Stegner's son, Page Wallace Stegner, was a novelist, essayist, nature writer and professor emeritus at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Wallace Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University.

Wallace Stegner's students included Wendell Berry, Sandra Day O'Connor, Edward Abbey, Simin Daneshvar, Andrew Glaze, George V Higgins, Thomas McGuane, Robert Stone, Ken Kesey, Gordon Lish, Ernest Gaines, and Larry McMurtry.

Wallace Stegner moved into a house near Matadero Creek on Three Forks Road in nearby Los Altos Hills and became one of the town's most prominent residents.

Wallace Stegner explained his use of unpublished archival letters briefly at the beginning of Angle of Repose but his use of uncredited passages taken directly from Foote's letters caused a continuing controversy.

In 1977 Wallace Stegner won the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird.

Wallace Stegner wrote the foreword to and edited This Is Dinosaur, with photographs by Philip Hyde.

The Wallace Stegner Lecture has long been a literary-cultural highlight for the LCSC community.

The Wallace Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University is a two-year creative writing fellowship.

In 2005, the Los Altos History Museum mounted an exhibition entitled "Wallace Stegner: Throwing a Long Shadow" providing a retrospective of the author's life and works.

Lynn Wallace Stegner said the family attempted to sell the home to Stanford University in an attempt to preserve it, but the university said the home would be sold at market value, customary for real estate donated to Stanford.

Wallace initially opposed the creation of a hiking path near his home but Mary Stegner confided that her husband later came to enjoy walking on it, and the path was eventually named for him posthumously, in 2008.