Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), widely regarded as the “Dean of Western Writers,” authored over a dozen novels, including The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose, and The Spectator Bird, winner of the National Book Award. He also authored five short story collections and sixteen works of nonfiction. Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, and Stanford University, where he founded the creative writing program.

Published in VQR

• Hostage, Summer 1943
• Chip Off the Old Block, Autumn 1942
• The New Novels, Summer 1940
• Conductivity in Fiction, Summer 1939
• Chronicles of the West, Autumn 1938
• Bugle Song, Summer 1938