Wolf Willow: A History, a Story and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier

London: Heinemann, 1963. First U.K. Edition. 306pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Price-clipped jacket. Bookplate on the front pastedown. In this work Stegner mixes together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called 'The Dean of Western Writers'. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977, and through his writing program at Stanford University, influenced generations of writers (Edward Abbey, Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Larry McMurtry). Colberg A16.1.b.