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Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West

Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West - Paperback

by Wallace Stegner
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Availability:In StockContributor:Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner (Editor)Publish date:1999-09-15Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805062960ISBN-10:805062963UPC:9780805062960Book Category:Literary Collections, TravelBook Subcategory:Essays, United States, Essays & TraveloguesBook Topic:WestSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC5AH1Q88K
Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since his death, Stegner's son Page has collected, annotated, and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in any edition, as well as a little-known novella and several of Stegner's best-known essays on the American West. Seventy-five percent of the contents of this body of work is published here for the first time.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805062960ISBN-10:805062963UPC:9780805062960Book Category:Literary Collections, TravelBook Subcategory:Essays, United States, Essays & TraveloguesBook Topic:WestSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC5AH1Q88K

The winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, Wallace Stegner is the author of a dozen novels and as many works of nonfiction, including Angle of Repose, The Spectator Bird, and Crossing to Safety. The founder and director of the graduate writing program at Stanford University, he spent much of his life in northern California and Vermont. He died in 1993.

Page Stegner is the author of many books. For twenty-eight years he served as Professor of American Literature and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He now divides his time between northeastern Vermont and northern California.
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Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner (Editor)

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Wallace Stegner

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