Description

Description: Novelist Wallace Stegner cordially writes to a fan that he is nervous to think of his “lugubrious” books “as solace to somebody in a low mood.” He hopes that “they continue to console [the writer] when the wind is cold.” He adds that her letter consoled him too. Signed, “Sincerely / Wallace Stegner”

Typed and signed on 11” x 8 ½” ivory paper dated Aug. 8. 1992. Includes a bookmark with author’s image on the recto and a listing of books published by Penguin books on the verso.

Item #A02103

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993), also called “The Dean of Western Writers,” was an American novelist, environmentalist, and historian. He won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1972 for Angle of Repose, a novel that stirred much controversy, and the National Book Award in 1977 for The Spectator Bird. He founded the creative writing program at Stanford University where he last taught. Wendell Berry, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Ken Kesey, among other well-known writers, were his students.

Condition: Mailing foldlines, otherwise in very good condition.