Stegner Biographer Borrows From Fiction for Fitting Synthesis

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[Philip L. Fradkin] recites his honour roll: "[Wallace Stegner] taught writing students whose names have come to constitute a virtual hall of fame of American letters (Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone and Scott Turow, to name just a few)."

He was a famous conservationist (before the contemporary term "environmentalist" gained currency) in the 1950s and '60s. He even did a stint as an adviser to U.S. secretary of the interior Stewart Udall.

"He came from nowhere culturally and became a writer whose books were translated into foreign languages," writes Fradkin. "He was a barefoot frontier youth who would later consort with the intellectual elite in this and other countries."

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Stegner Biographer Borrows From Fiction for Fitting Synthesis

Wallace Stegner and the American West

By Philip L. Fradkin

Knopf, 370 pages, $32

Reviewed by Douglas J. Johnston

CANLIT likes to claim Wallace Stegner as one of its own -- with at least some va...

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