Stegner, Wallace [Earle]
Stegner, Wallace [Earle]( 1909–93),Iowa-born author, graduated from the University of Utah and in 1945 began his remaining academic career at Stanford as professor of English and head of its creative writing program. His own literary career is marked by many novels: Remembering Laughter (1937), set in Iowa; On a Darkling Plain (1940), about a Canadian veteran seeking solitude on the prairie; Fire and Ice (1941), about a college student temporarily joining the Communist party; The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943), about a Far Westerner who moves his family from one home to another in a futile search for fortune; Second Growth (1947), contrasting the lives of visitors and villagers in New Hampshire; The Preacher and the Slave (1950), about Joe Hill of the I.W.W.; A Shooting Star (1961), presenting ways of life among established, wealthy northern Californians; All the Little Live Things...
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