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Stegner

American  
[steg-ner] / ˈstɛg nər /

noun

  1. Wallace (Earle), 1909–93, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.


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Herrero grew up reading Edward Abbey and Wallace Stegner — chroniclers of the Southwest who readily admitted their own “anti-social” tendencies and believed humans were the ruin of the canyon lands, of desert solitude.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024

Stegner ran his family’s grain-elevator business in north-central Idaho before jumping into politics.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023

The governor’s office dropped its support, Stegner said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023

Xuan Juliana Wang, another English department colleague who has known Torres since they were both at Stanford’s Wallace Stegner Fellowship, teaches “We the Animals” to her students for its distinctive second-person plural narration.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

When a twenty-foot goddess walked out of the jungle, they knew Stegner wasn't kidding.

From Of Stegner's Folly by Shaver, Richard S.

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