Stuart Page Stegner (January 31, 1937, in Salt Lake City, Utah,^[1] – December 14, 2017, in Reno, Nevada^[2]) was a novelist, essayist, and historian who wrote extensively about the American West. He was the son of novelist and historian Wallace Stegner.^[3]

Career

Stegner received his B.A. in history from Stanford University in 1959, followed by a Ph.D in American literature in 1964. He served as a Professor of American Literature and Director of the creative writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1965 to 1995 ^[4] at which time he focused his efforts on writing. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1980), a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (1981) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982). He was married to novelist Lynn Stegner.^[5] He lived in Vermont.^[6]

Selected writings

Non-fiction

• Escape Into Aesthetics, The Dial Press, c1966, Library of Congress Number 68-22588
• Nabokov's Congeries, The Viking Press, c1968, Library of Congross Catalogue Number 68-22868
• American Places, (with Wallace Stegner and Eliot Porter), E.P.Dutton, c1981, ISBN 0-525-05390-5
• Islands of the West, Sierra Club Books, c1985, ISBN 0-87156-844-6
• Outposts of Eden : a Curmudgeon at Large in the American West, Sierra Club Books, c1989, ISBN 0-87156-672-9
• Grand Canyon: The Great Abyss, Tehabi Books, c1995, ISBN 0-06-258573-8
• Winning the Wild West : the Epic Saga of the American Frontier, 1800-1899, foreword by Larry McMurtry, Tehabi Books, c2002 ISBN 0-7432-3291-7
• Adios, Amigos : Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West, Counterpoint, c2008, ISBN 1-59376-169-4

Fiction

• The Edge, The Dial Press, c1968, Library of Congress Catalog Number 67-25307
• Hawks and Harriers, The Dial Press, c1972, Library of Congress Catalog Number 75-163588
• Sportscar Menopause, Atlantic Little-Brown, c1977, ISBN 0-316-81224-2