Stegner

American  

[steg-ner] / ˈstɛg nər /

noun

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

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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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Stegner, the state senator, was among those leading the charge.

From Seattle Times

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

From Seattle Times