The Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University is a two-year creative writing fellowship. His students included Wendell Berry, and Sandra Day O'Connor.
Eventually he settled at Stanford University, where he initiated the creative writing program.
Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Stegner grew up in Great Falls, Montana Salt Lake City, Utah and in the village of Eastend, Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow. He also won the US National Book Award in 1977 for The Spectator Bird. He was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian he has been called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner was born on Februin Lake Mills, Iowa. In 1972, Wallace Earle Stegner won a Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose (1971), a novel about a wheelchair-bound man's recreation of his New England grandmother's experience in a late nineteenth-century frontier town. Each of these stories embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction. There is sweet love in a berry patch, there are bittersweet reunions, trials, and tests of manhood and friendship, and the sometimes foolish and impractical yet noble dreams of man. Here are tales of young love and older wisdom of the order and consistency of the natural world and the chaos, contradictions, and also continuities of the human being. These thirty-one stories demonstrate why he is acclaimed as one of America's master storytellers.
In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, has created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America.
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