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Wallace Stegner

Born

in Lake Mills, Iowa, The United States

February 18, 1909

Died

April 13, 1993

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers." He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 159,751 ratings · 18,444 reviews · 188 distinct works • Similar authors

	Angle of Repose 4.24 avg rating — 61,842 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, Terry Tempest Williams (Introduction), T.H. Watkins (Afterword) 4.16 avg rating — 50,546 ratings — published 1987 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Rock Candy Mountain 4.20 avg rating — 8,915 ratings — published 1943 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spectator Bird really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,679 ratings — published 1976 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Little Live Things 4.13 avg rating — 4,219 ratings — published 1967 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West 4.04 avg rating — 4,211 ratings — published 1954 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs by Wallace Stegner, T.H. Watkins (Afterword) 4.09 avg rating — 2,022 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner (Afterword) 3.82 avg rating — 2,010 ratings — published 1937 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recapitulation 3.87 avg rating — 1,589 ratings — published 1979 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 975 ratings — published 1962 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Wallace Stegner (?)

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird

tags: heartbreak, hurt, life-lessons, scars, wisdom, wounds

556 likes

“Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

tags: betrayal, infidelity, longing, touch

347 likes

“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

tags: autumn, back-to-school, fall, new-beginnings, september, summer

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November 2021 New School Classics Group Read

The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura, 1906, 133 pages

46 votes, 24.2%

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, 1927, 297 pages

42 votes, 22.1%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1900, 384 pages

28 votes, 14.7%

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, 1952, 276 pages
(Carol by Claire Morgan)

25 votes, 13.2%

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić, 1945, 314 pages

17 votes, 8.9%

Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery, 1937, 274 pages

17 votes, 8.9%

Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset, 1909, 161 pages

8 votes, 4.2%

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, 1987, 368 pages

7 votes, 3.7%

190 total votes

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