Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work

Jackson J. Benson

ISBN 10: 0670862223 / ISBN 13: 9780670862221

Verlag: Viking Adult, 1996

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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.
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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jackson J. Benson teaches American literature at San Diego State University.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work
Verlag: Viking Adult
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket