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| Stegner, Wallace |
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| 190993, American writer, b. Lake Mills, Iowa. He wrote perceptively of the American West in short stories, e.g., The Woman on the Wall (1950); novellas, e.g., On a Darkling Plain (1940); and novels, e.g., The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943), Angle of Repose (1971; Pulitzer), and Crossing to Safety (1987). |
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