Wallace Stegner
Sign in to saveAlso known as Wallace Earle Stegner, Wallace E. Stegner
American historian, writer, and environmentalist (1909-1993)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 18 Feb 1909
- Died
- 13 Apr 1993
- Works
- 194
Top works
- Stanford Short Stories 1960
- Stanford Short Stories 1956
- Stanford Short Stories 1951
- Short Stories 1953
- Stanford Short Stories 1958
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 49
- Total plays
- 201
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0
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· 2010 · cited 12,887x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
- Processable aqueous dispersions of graphene nanosheets
· 2008 · cited 8,597x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,070x
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Quotes
- “It is a better world with some buffalo left in it, a richer world with some gorgeous canyons unmarred by signboards, hot-dog stands, super highways, or high-tension lines, undrowned by power or irrigation reservoirs. If we preserved as parks only those places that have no economic possibilities, we would have no parks. And in the decades to come, it will not be only the buffalo and the trumpeter swan who need sanctuaries. Our own species is going to need them too. It needs them now.”
- “It has never been man’s gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.”
- “There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.”
- “If the national park idea is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.”
- “The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe.”
- “It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into; harshly and beautifully colored, broken and worn until its bones are exposed, its great sky without a smudge of taint from Technocracy, and in hidden corners and pockets under its cliffs the sudden poetry of springs.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Wallace Earle Stegner , ( 1909-02-18 ) February 18, 1909, Lake Mills, Iowa , U.S.
- Died
- April 13, 1993 (1993-04-13) (aged 84), Santa Fe, New Mexico , U.S.
- Occupation
- Historian novelist short story writer environmentalist
- Education
- University of Utah ( BA ), University of Iowa ( MA , PhD )
- Period
- 1937–1993
- Notable awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , (1972, Angle of Repose ), National Book Award for Fiction , (1977, The Spectator Bird ), Fulbright Scholar to Greece, 1963
- Spouse
- Mary Stuart Page (1934–1993)
- Children
- Page Stegner
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- date of birth
- 1909-02-18
- date of death
- 1993-04-13
- start of work period
- 1937-00-00
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Article
Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was 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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1909 births1993 deaths20th-century American historians20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelistsAcademics from Great Falls, MontanaActivists from CaliforniaAmerican environmentalistsAmerican male novelistsAmerican PresbyteriansChristian novelistsHarvard University facultyHistorians of the American WestHistorians of the Latter Day Saint movementIowa Writers' Workshop alumniMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersNational Book Award winnersNovelists from CaliforniaNovelists from IowaNovelists from MassachusettsNovelists from UtahNovelists from WisconsinO. Henry Award winnersPeople from Lake Mills, Iowa