Wallace Stegner (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Wallace Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, on February 18, 1909, the son of George and Hilda Paulson Stegner. His father was a dynamic but unstable dreamer who was always coming up with schemes to strike it rich in some new part of the West. Stegner's mother cherished culture, tradition, polite manners, and all the values of established civilization. She was mismatched to the rowdy, uncouth George Stegner but remained with him until her death from cancer in 1933.
Stegner had an unstable childhood because his family was always moving. They lived in Iowa,...
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