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When he was in his late 50s, Stegner (1909-1993) described himself, through a fictional character, as "a tea bag left too long in the cup," but he lived into his 80s, dying in an auto accident in 1993. In his middle years three of his finest novels, Angle of Repose, The Spectator Bird and Crossing to Safety, were yet to come. Always associated with university writing programs, notably at Stanford, his was not a career from which it is easy to mine urgent biographical narrative. Yet Benson (The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer) makes the most of Stegner's stark Saskatchewan childhood and felonious father, both of which later energized the ambitious epic Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943). Stegner's disappointment at his often tepid critical reception is a continuing motif. Asked by students what a Pulitzer Prize (which he would win in 1972) would mean to him, he scoffed: "I'd drink a better brand of bourbon." Yet he confided to a colleague that he had given up short fiction because "you can't have a major reputation on the short story." All of Stegner's considerable output, including histories, biographies and essays, evince a sensitivity for moral verities and the threatened land. Benson's admiring biography, begun with Stegner's cooperation, still reads disconcertingly in places as if his subject were alive. Still, the biography will help to solidify Stegner's place in the literature of his time. Illustrations not seen by PW. Author tour. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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A thorough if somewhat detached life of the dean of Western American letters. Best remembered as an environmentalist and historian, Stegner (19091993) was also an accomplished novelist who, Benson points out, had won ``nearly every major award given to a writer except the Nobel Prize'' but whose works generally sold only modestly. Benson (The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, 1983) charts the course of Stegner's development as a writer. He has little to say about his subject's early years except that they were marked by ``emotional isolation and feelings of deficiency and failure,'' but he warms up when dealing with the adult Stegner, armed with a doctorate and occupying influential positions at Harvard and, later, Stanford, where he founded the fellowships in creative writing that bear his name. (Among his students were Ken Kesey, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Robert Stone.) Stegner documented his own life so well, in books like the semiautobiographical novel The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Wolf Willow, a blend of history and memoir, that Benson can sometimes add little to the portrait Stegner left us. But Benson, himself a professor of literature (San Diego State Univ.), has much to say about the content of Stegner's books and the manner of their composition. Benson stresses Stegner's preoccupation in his books with the development of personal identity, as well as his unusual, tightly woven narrative structures. There are also a few thought-provoking surprises, as when Benson points out that at the end of his life Stegner was so depressed about the rape of the West that he intended to move to Vermont, where, he maintained, there was more wild nature than in California. Admirers of Stegner's work will find this a useful but uninspired companion. (photos, not seen) (Author tour)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Wallace Stegner was a noncelebrity author, historian, teacher, and environmentalist who wanted to be remembered most as a novelist who combined historical perspective with fictional techniques. Benson, the author of a definitive, award-winning biography of John Steinbeck, spent seven years interviewing Stegner and studying his private papers; the result is a pioneering account of another literary lion. The son of a sometime "whiskey-runner," Stegner became a Pulitzer Prize^-winning author, founder of the writing program at Stanford University, and devoted family man who admitted he did not "wake up" to writing until after he had earned his Ph.D. In this engrossing work, Benson offers a portrait of a resilient truth-seeker, steadfast moralist, obsessive realist, and compassionate humanist who became the standard-bearer for western regionalist writing. Popular as Stegner may be, his fans do not include Native American scholar Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, who takes umbrage with Stegner's claim that western history "sort of stopped at 1890," with the massacre at Wounded Knee. She argues in her book's title essay that the indigenous Indian nation did not expire as a result of white colonialism. Rather, she asserts, the violence was a rallying call, a "focal point of survival," the beginning of a glorious history for the Sioux nation. Cook-Lynn attempts to bridge the gap between Native American life and academe by offering erudite political and intellectual arguments to refute what she sees as lack of responsibility in literary studies. Her essays provide powerful arguments for authentic Indian Studies departments, cultural revitalization, and tribal literature critiqued exclusively within Third World "theoretical considerations." --Patricia Hassler
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Wallace Stegner (1909-93) was a prolific writer of history (The Gathering of Zion, LJ 2/15/75; Univ. of Nebraska, 1992. reprint), biography (Ansel Adams, Bulfinch, 1988), novels (the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose, LJ 4/1/71; Penguin, 1992. reprint); short fiction; and essays. Benson (American literature, San Diego State Univ.), the biographer of Steinbeck (The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, Penguin, 1990. reprint), has written with admiration and fairness this first full-scale study of Stegner's life and accomplishments. Benson's thorough research included a study of Stegner's private papers and extensive interviews with Stegner and his wife, Mary. Benson does not touch on every detail; we learn, for example, almost nothing about Stegner's relationship with his son. But this is generally a good study of Stegner's personal life, describing his youth in Saskatchewan and Salt Lake City; his career as a teacher, including the founding of the Stanford University Writing Program; and his development as a writer, with extensive, cogent analyses of his work and his involvement with the conservation movement. Highly recommended, particularly for academic and public libraries in the West.Judy Mimken, Boise P.L., Id. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.