Wallace Stegner (1909–1993)
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In 1972, Wallace Earle Stegner won a Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose (1971), a novel about a wheelchair-bound man's recreation of his New England grandmother's experience in a late nineteenth-century frontier town. Stegner was born on February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa. He was an American toon meer novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian; he has been called "The Dean of Western Writers". He also won the US National Book Award in 1977 for The Spectator Bird. Stegner grew up in Great Falls, Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah; and in the village of Eastend, Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow. Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Eventually he settled at Stanford University, where he initiated the creative writing program. His students included Wendell Berry, and Sandra Day O'Connor. The Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University is a two-year creative writing fellowship. The house Stegner lived in from age 7 to 12 in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, was restored by the Eastend Arts Council in 1990 and established as a Residence for Artists; the Wallace Stegner Grant For The Arts offers a grant of $500 and free residency at the house for the month of October for published Canadian writers. Stegner died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on April 13, 1993, from a car accident on March 28, 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (1954) 787 exemplaren
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992) 721 exemplaren
Wilderness at the Edge: A Citizen Proposal to Protect Utah's Canyons and Deserts (1991) 12 exemplaren
The American West: The magazine of the Western History Association, Volume V, No. 6, November 1968 3 exemplaren
The American West: The Magazine of the Western History Association, July 1968/Volume V, Number 4 3 exemplaren
Two Rivers 3 exemplaren
FIRE AND ICE 2 exemplaren
Carrion Spring [short story] 2 exemplaren
Angle Of Repose Part 1 Of 2 2 exemplaren
History Comes To The Plains: The old frontier began to die as the “medicine line” of the 49th Parallel was drawn 2 exemplaren
The Effective Theme 2 exemplaren
The View from the Balcony [short story] 1 exemplaar
Memo to the Mountain Lion 1 exemplaar
Montana Stories 1 exemplaar
Αμερικανική Λογοτεχνία 1 exemplaar
Genesis a Story From Wolf Willow 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Stegner, Wallace Earle
- Geboortedatum
- 1909-02-18
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1993-04-13
- Graflocatie
- Lincoln-Noyes Cemetery, Greensboro, Vermont, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Lake Mills, Iowa, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- respiratory failure
- Woonplaatsen
- Lake Mills, Iowa, USA
Great Falls, Montana, USA
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Saskatchewan, Canada
Los Altos Hills, California, USA - Opleiding
- University of Utah (BA ∙ 1930)
State University of Iowa (MA ∙ 1932)
State University of Iowa (PhD ∙ 1935)
University of California - Beroepen
- professor
historian
novelist
essayist - Relaties
- Stegner, Page (son)
Stegner, Mary (wife) - Organisaties
- Stanford University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Harvard University
University of Utah
Augusta College
Sierra Club (toon alle 9)
University of Toronto
American Academy in Rome
National Parks Advisory Board - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Pulitzer Prize (1972)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1969)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1965)
American Antiquarian Society (1985)
Robert Kirsch Award (1980)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1974) (toon alle 16)
Fellow, Utah State Historical Society
O. Henry Award (1942, 1950, 1954)
National Book Award (1977)
Commonwealth Club Gold Medal (1968)
Blackhawk Award (1963)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1972)
Fublright Fellowship (1962, 1968)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1950, 1952, 1960)
Rockefeller Fellowship (1950-51)
Phi Beta Kappa - Korte biografie
- Wallace Earle Stegner 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.
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Stegner schreef dit boek toen hij 78 was, en ik neem aan dat Larry grotendeels autobiografisch is. Maar Larry is in elk geval niet het hoofdpersonage is van dit verhaal, maar wel de onuitstaanbare controle-freak Charity die erin slaagde iedereen te manipuleren en voor haar in te nemen. Het knappe is vooral hoe Stegner het dramatisch verhaal van Charity compositorisch centraal stelt, maar dat voortdurend doorweeft met telkens nieuwe evaluaties van de relatie tussen de twee koppels, en de eigen ambities van de afzonderlijke personages, hun wederzijdse afhankelijkheid en onafhankelijkheid. Dit is met andere woorden eigenlijk een heel reflectieve roman, waarin maar heel weinig echte actie zit, maar waarin op vernuftige wijze de geheel eigen aard van langdurige vriendschappen en relaties wordt verkend. Naar mijn smaak is deze roman, ondanks de gedegen intellectualistische inslag (met een heel lange parenthese over een verblijf in Florence) me toch iets te Amerikaans. Gelukkig zijn er de eindeloze beschrijvingen van de prachtige natuur in het noordwesten van de Verenigde Staten (vooral Vermont). Wel spijtig van de schabouwelijke Nederlandse vertaling, met geregeld wel heel kromme zinnen.… (meer)