Page Stegner Explained

Stuart Page Stegner (January 31, 1937, in Salt Lake City, Utah,^[1] – December 14, 2017, in Reno, Nevada^[2]) was a novelist, essayist, and historian who wrote extensively about the American West. He was the son of novelist and historian Wallace Stegner.^[3]

Career

Stegner received his B.A. in history from Stanford University in 1959, followed by a Ph.D in American literature in 1964. He served as a Professor of American Literature and Director of the creative writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1965 to 1995^[4] at which time he focused his efforts on writing. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1980), a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (1981) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982). He was married to novelist Lynn Stegner.^[5] He lived in Vermont.^[6]

Selected writings

Non-fiction

• Escape Into Aesthetics, The Dial Press, c1966, Library of Congress Number 68-22588
• Nabokov's Congeries, The Viking Press, c1968, Library of Congross Catalogue Number 68-22868
• American Places, (with Wallace Stegner and Eliot Porter), E.P.Dutton, c1981,
• Islands of the West, Sierra Club Books, c1985,
• Outposts of Eden : a Curmudgeon at Large in the American West, Sierra Club Books, c1989,
• Grand Canyon: The Great Abyss, Tehabi Books, c1995,
• Winning the Wild West : the Epic Saga of the American Frontier, 1800-1899, foreword by Larry McMurtry, Tehabi Books, c2002
• Adios, Amigos : Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West, Counterpoint, c2008,

Fiction

• The Edge, The Dial Press, c1968, Library of Congress Catalog Number 67-25307
• Hawks and Harriers, The Dial Press, c1972, Library of Congress Catalog Number 75-163588
• Sportscar Menopause, Atlantic Little-Brown, c1977,

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stegner, Page 1937– - Dictionary definition of Stegner, Page 1937– - Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary. www.encyclopedia.com.
2. Web site: Stuart Stegner's Obituary on The Salt Lake Tribune. The Salt Lake Tribune.
3. News: Stegner's heirs object to republication. https://web.archive.org/web/20071204123942/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695232661,00.html. dead. December 4, 2007. December 3, 2007. Deseret News. August 5, 2010.
4. https://literature.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=stegner S. Page Stegner
5. News: MetroActive Books: Lynn Stegner. November 3, 1999. Metro Silicon Valley. August 5, 2010.
6. Web site: Page Stegner. linkedin.com.