Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist and historian, often called the Dean of Western Writers. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the National Book Award in 1977. His novels include Angle of Repose, The Spectator Bird, and Crossing to Safety, which follows two couples across decades, from Vermont to Wisconsin. Stegner died in 1993.