Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner (born Feb. 18, 1909, Lake Mills, Iowa, U.S.—died April 13, 1993, Santa Fe, N.M.) was an American author of fiction and historical nonfiction set mainly in the western United States. All his writings are informed by a deep sense of the American experience and the potential, which he termed “the geography of promise,” that the West symbolizes. For his work, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Stegner grew...