Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was the author of, among other novels, All the Little Live Things (winner of a. .

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was the author of, among other novels, All the Little Live Things (winner of a Commonwealth Club Gold Medal), Angle of Repose (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and The Spectator Bird (winner of the National Book Award). His nonfiction includes The Sound of Mountain Water, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. Three of his short stories won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

If you live west of Denver and haven't read Wallace Stegner, you're not living right

If you live west of Denver and haven't read Wallace Stegner, you're not living right.

Wallace Stegner, THE SOUND OF MOUNTAIN WATER. ABOUT THE SOUND OF MOUNTAIN WATER A book of timeless importance about the American West and a modern classic by National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace Stegner. The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches collected in The Sound of Mountain Water encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Compositions delve into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West–from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada–into the modern age.

The Changing American West. Other works feature eloquent sketches of the West’s history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as Robbers Roost and Glen Canyon.

The Sound of Mountain Water. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West. by Wallace Stegner · Lynn Stegner. In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America.

The Wallace Stegner Lecture has long been a literary-cultural highlight for the LCSC community. Teaching the Short Story (1966). The Sound of Mountain Water (1969). Wallace Stegner and the American West. Gessner, David (2015). The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto (1974). Writer in America (1982). Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature (1983). This Is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and its Magic Rivers (1985). All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-08999-8.

A book of timeless importance about the American West by a National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author. The essays collected in this volume encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature

A book of timeless importance about the American West by a National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author. The essays collected in this volume encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Delving into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West-from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada-into the modern age, Stegner's essays explore the essence of the American soul

The Changing American West. Books related to The Sound of Mountain Water. Delving into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West-from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada-into the modern age, Stegner's essays explore the essence of the American soul. Writtten over a period of thirty-five years by a writer and thinker who will always hold a unique position in modern American letters, The Sound of Mountain Water is a modern American classic.