Wallace Stegner Exhibit

Earning the Pulitzer

Stegner’s nonfiction books The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon TrailTeaching the Short Story, and The Sound of Mountain Water, along with his two fictional pieces A Shooting Star and All the Little Live Things brought him another successful decade in the 1960s.

An advertisement for Angle of Repose The title page of Angle of Repose, dedicated to the Marriott Library and signed by Wallace Stegner

These were followed up in 1971 by Angle of Repose, a book beautiful and vast and not without some controversy. A misunderstanding in regards to the use of the Mary Hallock Foote letters between Stegner and the family led to great dissonance. Regardless of the controversy, Angle of Repose won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize marking Stegner as a truly remarkable writer and introducing him to those who had been previously unfamiliar with his work.

A manuscript page from Wallace Stegner's novel Angle of Repose The final published text of a passge from Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose

Draft and finished pages of a passage from Angle of Repose, Wallace Earle Stegner papers, MS 0676.

 
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