Wallace Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, in 1909. He earned a B.A. at the University of Utah in 1930 and an M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. He founded the creative writing program at Stanford University.
He is best known for writing about the American West. His novels include The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943), Angle of Repose (1971), The Spectator Bird (1976) and Crossing to Safety (1987). Angle of Repose won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1993.
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