Wallace Stegner (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Wallace Stegner’s first work, Remembering Laughter (1937), was published after he won the Little, Brown contest. For more than fifty years after that publication date, Stegner published novels, novellas, short stories, essays, biographies, and additional nonfiction work. Many of Stegner’s fictional works were based on his life or the lives of Western figures. As a child, Stegner and his family moved to such places as Saskatchewan, Canada, Washington State, Iowa, Montana, and Salt Like City, Utah. This migratory childhood is reflected in Stegner’s...

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