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Writings by Wallace Stegner

From Literature Resource Center Database

Image of Stegner's Signature

 

Novels

Remembering Laughter, Little, Brown, 1937
The Potter's House, Prairie Press, 1938
On a Darkling Plain. Harcourt, 1940
Fire and Ice, Duell, 1941
The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Duell, 1943, reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1983
Second Growth, Houghton, 1947, reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1985
The Preacher and the Slave, Houghton, 1950, published as Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel, Doubleday, 1969, reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1980
A Shooting Star, Viking, 1961
All the Little Live Things, Viking, 1967
Angle of Repose, Doubleday, 1971
The Spectator Bird, Doubleday, 1976
Recapitulation, Doubleday, 1979
Crossing to Safety, Random House, 1987

Collections

The Women on the Wall (stories), Houghton, 1948, reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1980
The City of the Living and Other Stories, Houghton, 1956
The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West (essays), Doubleday, 1969, reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1985
One Way to Spell Man (essays) Doubleday, 1982
Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner, Random House, 1990

Editor

(With others) An Exposition Workshop: Readings in Modern Controversy, Little, Brown, 1939
(With others) Readings for Citizens at War, Harper, 1941
(With Richard Scowcroft and Boris Ilyin)The Writer's Art: A Collection of Short Stories, Heath, 1950, reprinted, Greenwood Press, 1972
This is Dinosaur: Echo Park and Its Magic Rivers, Knopf, 1955, reprinted, Roberts, Rinehart, 1985
J.W. Powell, The Exploration of the Colorado River of the West, University of Chicago Press, 1957
(With Mary Stegner) Great American Short Stories, Dell, 1957, reprinted, 1985
Selected American Prose, 1841-1900: The Realistic Movement, Rinehart, 1958
Samuel Clemens, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Dell, 1960
Bret Harte, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, New American Library, 1961
J. W. Powell, Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, Harvard University Press, 1962
(with others) Modern Composition, four volumes, Holt, 1964
The American Novel: From James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner, Basic Books, 1965
A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Big Sky Houghton, 1965
(With others) Twenty Years of Stanford Short Stories, Stanford University Press, 1966
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales, Heritage Press, 1967
The Letters of Bernard DeVoto, Doubleday, 1975
Editor, with Scowcroft, of Stanford Short Stories (annual), Stanford University Press, 1946-68

Houghton-Mifflin Co., West Coast Editor, 1945-53
American West Magazine, Editor in Chief, 1966-68

Other

Mormon Country, Duell, 1941, reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
With the editors of Look magazine, One Nation, Houghton, 1945
The Writer in America (lectures), Hokuseido Press (Tokyo), 1951, Folcroft Press, 1969
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton, 1954, reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1982
Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier, Viking, 1962, reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1980
The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail, McGraw, 1964, reprinted, Howe Brothers, 1982
Teaching the Short Story, Department of English, University of California, Davis, 1965
Discovery!:The Search for Arabian Oil. Middle East Export Press, 1971
Variations on a Theme of Discontent, Utah State University Press, 1972
Robert Frost and Bernard DeVoto, Association of the Stanford University Libraries, 1974
The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto
, Doubleday, 1974
(Author of foreword) Ansel Adams, Images, 1923-1974, New York Graphic Society, 1974
(With son, Page Stegner, and Eliot Porter) American Places, Dutton, 1981
(With Richard Etulain) Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature, University of Utah Press, 1983
The American West as Living Space (lectures), University of Michigan Press, 1987
On the Teaching of Creative Writing, edited by Edward C. Lathem, University Press of New England, 1989
(And author of introduction) Wilderness at the Edge: A Citizen Proposal to Protect Utah's Canyons and Deserts, foreword by Wayne Owens, Utah Wilderness Coalition, 1990
(With Richard W. Etulain) Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature, University of Utah Press, 1990
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West, Random House, 1992

Contributor To:

Look at America: The Central Northwest, Houghton, 1947
This I Believe, compiled by Edward R. Murrow, Simon and Schuster, 1952
The Romance of North America, edited by H. Mosley, Houghton, 1958
American Heritage Book of Great Natural Wonders, edited by Alvin V. Josephy, American Heritage Publishing, 1963
Four Portraits and One Subject: Bernard DeVoto, Houghton, 1963
Literary History of the United States, 3rd edition, edited by R. E. Spiller and others, Macmillan , 1963
American Literary Masters, edited by C. R. Anderson and others, Holt, 1965
Michael/Frank: Studies on Frank O'Connor, edited by Maurice Sheehy, Knopf, 1969
The Best of California: Some People, Places, and Institutions of the Most Exciting State in the Nation, as featured in California Magazine, 1976-86, edited by Harold Hayes, Borgo, 1988
Also contributor of short stories, essays, and articles to Esquire, Vogue, Atlantic, Harper's, Saturday Review, Mademoiselle, New York Times Book Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, New Republic, and other publications.
Some of Stegner's essays have been recorded on an audio cassette entitled A Sense of Place and released by Audio Press, 1989

Adaptation

Angle of Repose was adapted as an opera by Andrew Imbrie and Oakley Hall and produced by the San Francisco Opera Company in 1976.

 

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