Wallace Stegner

In "Everett Ruess," Philip L. Fradkin, the author of a dozen books, including a biography of the novelist and nature writer Wallace Stegner, explores similar terrain.

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011

Two years later Wallace Stegner made Ruess a chapter in his book "Mormon Country."

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011

A great university inviting me to study writing with Wallace Stegner.

We Remember - Eva Hindus, 1914 - 2008 2010

During their 59 years of marriage, Wallace Stegner reportedly took his wife breakfast in bed every morning.

Sandy Herold; Mary Page Stegner 2010

Mary Page Stegner, the widow of famed Western writer Wallace Stegner, died May 15 at a retirement home south of San Francisco.

The Daily Goodbye 2010

In 1961, while I worked at the publishing house, I applied for a Wallace Stegner fiction fellowship at Stanford University — and then, once I was pregnant, I essentially put it out of my mind.

We Remember - Eva Hindus, 1914 - 2008 2010

Wallace Stegner, who won a 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Angle of Repose," died after a car accident in 1993.

Sandy Herold; Mary Page Stegner 2010

Mary Page Stegner, 99, the widow of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Wallace Stegner, died May 15 at a retirement home in Portola Valley, Calif.

Sandy Herold; Mary Page Stegner 2010

In James R. Hepworth's 1998 book "Stealing Glances: Three Interviews With Wallace Stegner," the novelist said that his wife had been instrumental to his success: "She has had no role in my life except to keep me sane, fed, housed, amused and protected from unwanted telephone calls; also to restrain me fairly frequently from making a horse's ass of myself in public."

Sandy Herold; Mary Page Stegner 2010

It was with great shock that, at the end of April, 1962, I read a letter that arrived from Wallace Stegner at Stanford University telling me I had been awarded a fiction fellowship.

We Remember - Eva Hindus, 1914 - 2008 2010