Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983. First Edition. 207pp. Octavo [24 cm] Orange cloth with title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Signed by Stegner on the half-title. This rich harvest of Stegner's ideas and opinions is an indispensable source book for scholarly research on Stegner's writing. 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 A30.1.