But he describes himself as a writer who sometimes leaves his desk to act in environmental causes. Stegner is often called an environmentalist who also writes. Stegner is, however, well known in several distinct roles: prize-winning novelist (Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose, National Book Award for Spectator Bird) founding director of the Stanford University creative writing program which bears his name biographer, historian, essayist, editor and conservationist. He has to chew or else his jaws lock shut.” You’re stuck in it, you have to keep using it, or else you get ruined by it. Stegner has summed up his present situation: “A talent is a kind of imprisonment. So far, Stegner has written 31 books, a literary achievement of remarkable proportions. In 1987, his tenth novel, Crossing to Safety, was published, 50 years after publication of his first, Remembering Laughter. In April 1990, The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner was published to wide acclaim. Wallace Stegner, now in his 80’s, is still writing.
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