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Collection Dates: 1957 -- 1977 and undated
2.5 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Posted to Internet: 1998
Acquisition
Note: These
papers were donated to the Libraries by Wallace Stegner over a period of years.
Access
and Restrictions:
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Biographical Note
Wallace Stegner (1909
-- 1993) was born in Lake Mills, Iowa. He was the second son of Hilda Emelia
(Paulson) and George Henry Stegner. They lived a nomadic life moving from North
Dakota, Washington, Saskatchewan, Montana and Wyoming before settling down in
Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1921. He and his brother, Cecil, grew up hunting, fishing,
and exploring the West that he learned to admire and respect. Stegner graduated
from the University of Utah in 1930. His professors arranged a teaching assistantship
for him at the University of Iowa, so he could pursue his writing. He received
his M.A. in 1932 and Ph.D. in 1935. While at Iowa he met his wife, Mary Page.
After graduation they moved back to the West where he found a teaching position
at the University of Utah. While there Stegner wrote Remembering Laughter,
which won a novelette contest advertised by Little, Brown and Company. This
marked the real beginning of his writing career. In 1937, he began teaching
at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Two years later, he moved farther
East and accepted a faculty post at Harvard. It was during his time there that
he completed his first big novel, The Big Rock Candy Mountain. This autobiographical
work was published in 1943. He remained at Harvard until 1945 when he moved
back to the West and Stanford University. He served as the director of Stanford's
Creative Writing Center from 1946 -- 1971. His students included some of the
most notable contemporary writers of the American West. Larry McMurtry, Edward
Abbey, Thomas McGuane, and Ken Kesey are only a few who were part of Stanford's
writing program during Stegner's years there. Retiring in 1971 to devote himself
full-time to writing, Stegner went on to publish eleven more major works including
the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Angle of Repose and the National Book
Award winner of 1977, The Spectator Bird. These are only two of the many
awards and honors he received for his writing; there were also three O. Henry
prizes, a Commonwealth Gold Medal, and the Western History Association Prize.
Wallace Stegner died on April 12, 1993, after being seriously injured in an
automobile accident in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Wallace Stegner
Papers at the University of Iowa Libraries consist of three boxes containing
various stages of manuscript drafts and proofs for a number of Stegner's
works. Included are The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Remembering Laughter,
Mormon Country, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian and more.
Box
1
Correspondence, 1957 -- 1977. Including letters from Paul Engle and John Leggett.
Articles about Wallace Stegner
"In the Company of Wallace Stegner," by Mark Hunter. San Francisco Magazine, 23:7 (July, 1981).
"Wallace Stegner: A Most Notable Writer," by Richard W. Etulain. American West, (April, 1988).
"Writers, Fish, and Buffalo Jumps," by Donald Snow. Sierra, (July/August, 1989).
"Western History Association Prize Recipient, 1990: Wallace Stenger." Western History Quarterly, 22:2 (May, 1991).
Articles by Wallace Stegner
"The Geography of Hope." The Living Wilderness, 44:151 (December, 1980).
"The Coast of Oregon." Travel & Leisure, (Autumn, 1973).
"The Indians of Otavalo." Travel & Leisure, (October, 1974).
"The Trail of the Hawkeye." The Saturday Review of Literature, (July, 1938).
Beyond the Glass Mountain
First draft. Under title "Kilroy Was Here."Printer's copy, with revisions and carbon.
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
Early draft of manuscript. With some editorializings and changes indicated. (3 folders)Early draft of manuscript. Including acknowledgments.
Early draft of manuscript. Including section titled notes.
Publisher's copy with corrections. (3 folders)
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Original draft, transcript. (4 folders)Printer's copy. (4 folders)
Biographical information, including an autobiographical essay
The Blue Winged Teal
Printer's copy with revisions.
Book jackets
Book reviews, 1950 -- 1992
Mormon Country
Printer's copy. (2 folders)
Newspaper and miscellaneous clippings, 1937 -- 1988
Obituaries, eulogies, memorials for Wallace Stegner
The Preacher and the Slave
Preliminary working draft with notes. (2 folders)Working draft with corrections. (2 folders)
"Interview--The Editor."
Notebook. With titles of books and articles on subject.
Another draft with corrections. (2 folders)
Pamphlet - "Teaching the Short Story," by Wallace Stegner (1965).
The Preacher and the Slave
Publisher's copy. (2 folders)
Promotional and bibliographic materials
Remembering Laughter
Two incomplete versions of the first draft.Complete first draft.
Printer's proof.
Second Growth
Printer's copy. Under title "Landscape with Figures."
Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision - interdisciplinary symposium materials; 1996
The Women on the Wall
Printer's copy with revisions.
2008 Addendum
Timberg, Scott. "The Western Sage," Los Angeles Times, Saturday, November 24, 2007. Gift of Matthew Maibaum
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