Wallace Stegner

American author
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Also known as: Wallace Earle Stegner
Quick Facts
In full:
Wallace Earl Stegner
Born:
Feb. 18, 1909, Lake Mills, Iowa, U.S.
Died:
April 13, 1993, Santa Fe, N.M. (aged 84)
Awards And Honors:
Pulitzer Prize
National Book Award

Wallace Stegner (born Feb. 18, 1909, Lake Mills, Iowa, U.S.—died April 13, 1993, Santa Fe, N.M.) was an American author of fiction and historical nonfiction set mainly in the western United States. All his writings are informed by a deep sense of the American experience and the potential, which he termed “the geography of promise,” that the West symbolizes. For his work, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Stegner grew up in Saskatchewan, Can., and in several western states. He received a B.A. degree (1930) from the University of Utah and an M.A. (1932) and ...(100 of 385 words)