Wallace Stegner

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born

February 18, 1909 in The United States

died

April 13, 1993

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909—April 13, 1993) was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers."

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Books by Wallace Stegner

Average rating: 4.11 · 32,028 ratings · 4,557 reviews · 64 distinct works

	Angle of Repose 4.22 avg rating — 14,132 ratings — published 1971 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Crossing to Safety 4.15 avg rating — 9,190 ratings — published 1987 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Big Rock Candy Mountain 4.00 avg rating — 1,656 ratings — published 1938 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Spectator Bird 3.85 avg rating — 1,236 ratings — published 1977 — 15 editions	My rating:
	All the Little Live Things 4.03 avg rating — 1,032 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell & the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 1954 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs by Wallace Stegner, T.H. Watkins (Afterword) 4.01 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Recapitulation 3.73 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner (Afterword) 3.64 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1937 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Mormon Country by Wallace Stegner, Richard W. Etulain (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1942 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Wallace Stegner

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

tags: environment , nature , wilderness

52 people liked it

“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

43 people liked it

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird

tags: heartbreak , hurt , life-lessons , scars , wisdom , wounds

30 people liked it

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