Wallace Stegner is one of the finest American writers, teachers and environmentalists of the 20th century. While his writing, both fiction and non-fiction, was recognized by a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and many other distinctions major and minor, his legacy is much larger than any of these would suggest. In these in-depth essays, Stegner's biographer continues to explore various aspects of his career - his philosophical writing, his concern for the land, and his bedrock beliefs.and writing the Powell book taught him a great deal, not only giving him detailed knowledge of the fight for ... At Harvard he met a number of famous literary figures , and particularly important to him, as I have said, were Robert Frost and ... Readers have noticed how often Stegner in his fiction quotes Frost, and it could be said that Frost provided a background of metaphor that Stegner adopted and brought into his own talent for figurative language to deal with nature in literary terms.
Title | : | Down by the Lemonade Springs |
Author | : | Jackson J. Benson |
Publisher | : | University of Nevada Press - 2001 |
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