Page Stegner
{{short description|American novelist}}
Stuart Page Stegner (January 31, 1937, in Salt Lake City, Utah,{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/stegner-page-1937|title=Stegner, Page 1937– - Dictionary definition of Stegner, Page 1937– - Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary|website=www.encyclopedia.com}} – December 14, 2017, in Reno, Nevada{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?n=stuart-stegner&pid=187721305|title=Stuart Stegner's Obituary on The Salt Lake Tribune|website=The Salt Lake Tribune}}) was a novelist, essayist, and historian who wrote extensively about the American West. He was the son of novelist and historian Wallace Stegner.{{cite news|url=http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695232661,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204123942/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695232661,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 4, 2007|title=Stegner's heirs object to republication|date=December 3, 2007|work=Deseret News|accessdate=August 5, 2010}}
Career
Stegner received his B.A. in history from Stanford University in 1959, followed by a Ph.D in American literature in 1964. He served as a Professor of American Literature and Director of the creative writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1965 to 1995[https://literature.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=stegner S. Page Stegner] at University of California, Santa Cruz, at which time he focused his efforts on writing. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1980), a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (1981) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982). He was married to novelist Lynn Stegner.{{cite news|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/11.03.99/lq-stegner-9944.html|title=MetroActive Books: Lynn Stegner|date=November 3, 1999|work=Metro Silicon Valley|accessdate=August 5, 2010}} He lived in Vermont.{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/page-stegner-a3b05b51|title=Page Stegner|website=linkedin.com}}
Selected writings
=Non-fiction=
- Escape Into Aesthetics, The Dial Press, c1966, Library of Congress Number 68-22588
- Nabokov's Congeries, The Viking Press, c1968, Library of Congross Catalogue Number 68-22868
- American Places, (with Wallace Stegner and Eliot Porter), E.P.Dutton, c1981, {{ISBN|0-525-05390-5}}
- Islands of the West, Sierra Club Books, c1985, {{ISBN|0-87156-844-6}}
- Outposts of Eden : a Curmudgeon at Large in the American West, Sierra Club Books, c1989, {{ISBN|0-87156-672-9}}
- Grand Canyon: The Great Abyss, Tehabi Books, c1995, {{ISBN|0-06-258573-8}}
- Winning the Wild West : the Epic Saga of the American Frontier, 1800-1899, foreword by Larry McMurtry, Tehabi Books, c2002 {{ISBN|0-7432-3291-7}}
- Adios, Amigos : Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West, Counterpoint, c2008, {{ISBN|1-59376-169-4}}
=Fiction=
- The Edge, The Dial Press, c1968, Library of Congress Catalog Number 67-25307
- Hawks and Harriers, The Dial Press, c1972, Library of Congress Catalog Number 75-163588
- Sportscar Menopause, Atlantic Little-Brown, c1977, {{ISBN|0-316-81224-2}}
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:Writers from Salt Lake City
Category:American male novelists
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
Category:National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
Category:Writers from Santa Fe, New Mexico
Category:American male essayists
Category:20th-century American essayists