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100 1  Benson, Jackson J. 
245 10 Wallace Stegner :|bhis life and work /|cJackson J. Benson.
264  1 New York :|bViking,|c1996. 
300    xx, 472 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-456) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: Against the grain: a heritage of integrity -
       - The last homestead frontier: a prairie childhood -- From
       primitive to intellectual: the education of Wallace 
       Stegner -- From student to professor: the further 
       education of Wallace Stegner -- Becoming a novelist: write
       a novel and win a prize -- Accomplished writer, Harvard 
       teacher, and friend to the famous: what more do you need? 
       -- Hard work at Harvard: climbing the Big Rock Candy 
       Mountain -- Looking back at the West from Cambridge -- 
       From the fight against rugged individualism to the fight 
       against prejudice and racism -- Back to fiction, on to 
       Stanford -- Abandoning the novel and embracing the short 
       story -- From short story writer to environmentalist -- To
       the barricades for the environment -- Travel, travel 
       literature, and the search for narrative voice -- An all-
       star cast -- The struggle to locate oneself -- Historian 
       and "contemporary" -- Trouble in the sixties -- A new life
       -- The Pulitzer and beyond -- Back to biography and 
       another prizewinning novel -- The past that comes back to 
       haunt us -- Crossing to safety -- Giving all to time. 
520    Drawing on nearly ten years of research and unlimited 
       access to Stegner's letters and personal files, Benson 
       traces the trajectory of Wallace Stegner's life from his 
       birth on his grandfather's Iowa farm, his frontier 
       childhood on the lonely prairie homestead in Saskatchewan,
       and his teenage years among Salt Lake City's Mormons up 
       through his prominence as an award-winning writer, critic,
       historian, environmental activist, and teacher. Stegner 
       founded Stanford University's legendary Creative Writing 
       Program, where his students included such budding writers 
       as Larry McMurtry, Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Robert Stone,
       Raymond Carver, Evan Connell, and Tillie Olsen. 
520 8  But Benson's book is as much a consideration of Stegner's 
       own literary legacy as it is a blow-by-blow retelling of 
       his life. Providing a critical reassessment of the entire 
       body of Stegner's work, Benson argues convincingly for his
       subject's place in the literary canon - and not merely as 
       a "regional" Western writer, but quite simply as one of 
       the great writers of twentieth-century American letters, 
       whose books can stand comfortably on the shelf beside the 
       work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck. 
530    Also issued online. 
600 10 Stegner, Wallace,|d1909-1993. 
650  0 Authors, American|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Western stories|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Historians|zUnited States|vBiography. 
651  0 West (U.S.)|xHistoriography. 
651  0 West (U.S.)|xIn literature. 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aBenson, Jackson J.|tWallace Stegner.
       |dNew York : Viking, 1996|w(OCoLC)605472701 
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