Author of many books on the American West, western editor of Audubon magazine and a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Philip L. Fradkin has a resume that seems to suit him ...

In a tribute celebrating the 100th birthday of Western writer Wallace Stegner, New York Times columnist Timothy Egan recently wrote that if Señor Stegner were here to blow out the candles on his cake, ...

Wallace Stegner was more than a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books such as "Angle of Repose," "The Spectator Bird," and "Crossing To Safety." He was a teacher and mentor to many writers, including ...

The ghost of Wallace Stegner hung over the rolling hills of West Marin this weekend, and judging by those gathered to honor his eloquent prose and essays about the American West, the ghost was not a ...

Point Reyes Station, that oddly blended enclave of businesses, farms and artists in rural West Marin, is about to be invaded by hundreds of fans of the modern American West's foremost man of letters: ...

Early every morning, Wallace Stegner made the commute from his kitchen across a deck to his writing studio. Coming through sliding glass doors, he'd light a wood stove, then a cigar. When he finished ...

Boy, did you make a mountain out of a molehill! The article on Wallace Stegner (“Tangle of Repose,” by Susan Salter Reynolds, March 23) brought out the dialogue between Stegner and Janet Micoleau, a ...

Depending on who you ask, Wallace Stegner was either the greatest writer in the American West or someone they have never heard of. Stegner was a Pulitzer Prize winner; he won the fiction award for his ...

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was a “quintessential westerner,” writes award-winning environmental journalist and biographer Philip L. Fradkin. Stegner, a writer of both fiction and nonfiction whose ...

A. O. Scott’s essay about Wallace Stegner in your June 7 issue reminded me of a day about 45 years ago when I was in Palo Alto, killing time waiting for my friend to return from a meeting. Since I ...

For Wallace Stegner’s admirers, learning that he once accepted a commission to write a book for an oil company may come as a shock. The involvement with the likes of Texaco, Exxon, Mobil and Chevron ...