Stegner

[steg-ner]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The full story of national parks, however, might not comport with novelist Wallace Stegner’s 1983 declaration: “National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”

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I, too, am a collector of quotations, and after joking that newspaper stories should have epigraphs, I suggest one, from Wallace Stegner, that seems apropos to our conversation about Cohn: Present your subject in his own terms, judge him in yours.

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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.

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It struck Stegner as wrong when he learned Idaho was locking people with mental illness in prison without a conviction.

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Stegner persuaded fellow lawmakers to set aside $3 million to design the facility.

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