![]() ![]() He came from nowhere culturally and became a writer whose books were translated into numerous foreign languages. ![]() ![]() Stegner was a good man, but he was not the perfect man he was eulogized as being. He lived according to an inflexible code forged on the frontier, tempered during the Depression years, and never bent or broken to fit the changing times. His consideration was legendary his anger was implacable. Stegner was a man of many different and seemingly contradictory components. Wallace Stegner's life could be described as a continual search for the angle of repose. Now he clung to her skirts so closely that he hampered her walking, and she laid her hand on his head and kept it there because she knew that somewhere deep down in his prematurely old mind he lived with fear." -Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain ![]()
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