Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Died Today-April 13...

Angle of Repose won the Puliter Prze for fiction in 1972.















Wallace Stegner


(02/18/1909 – 04/13/1993)
 
Wallace Stegner lived in Utah for a time.  Additionally, he trained so many great writers in his writing program at Stanford University.  He has been called the "Dean of Western Writers."  His students included Sandra Day O'Connor, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Simin Daneshvar, George V. Higgins, Thomas McGuane, Robert Stone, Ken Kesey, Gordon Lish, Ernest Gaines, and Larry McMurtry.

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