The geography of hope : a tribute to Wallace Stegner

Book 1996

The Legacy of Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) - as writer, teacher and conservationist - once moved Edward Abbey to declare him "the only living American worthy of the Nobel." Unequaled in the American literature of place, his Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction created an entirely new consciousness of the American West. As director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University, Stegner wielded a powerful influence on many of the most important w...

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ISBN:

9780871568830
0871568837

Description:

140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents:

His finest work of art was himself / Jackson J. Benson
The quiet revolutionary / James R. Hepworth
No agenda but the truth / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Precedents to wisdom / Patricia Nelson Limerick
Remembering Wallace Stegner / James D. Houston
Where the bluebird sings / Gretchen Holstein Schoff
A tribute to Wallace Stegner / David E. Bonior
Partnership with the land / Bruce Babbitt
Burning sage at the Department of Interior / Terry Tempest Williams
Wallace Stegner and the rigor of civility / Charles Wilkinson
Letter to Mary / T.H. Watkins
The momentum of clarity / Wendell Berry
The cultivated wild of Wallace Stegner / John Daniel
Sons and grandsons / Ed McClanahan
This challenging and upright man / Nancy Packer
A point of view / Lynn Stegner
Father, teacher, collaborator / Page Stegner
Taking our turn, or responsibilities / William Kittredge
In memoriam / Barry Lopez
Everywhere in the West / Gretel Ehrlich
West of the Hudson, pronounced "Wallace" / Ivan Doig
Chronology / Nancy Colberg

LCCN:

95039025

Control Number:

3270860

Other Authors:

Stegner, Mary, editor
Stegner, Page, editor

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