Ebook {Epub PDF} Wallace Stegner and the American West by Philip L. Fradkin

 · Philip L. Fradkin, an award winning California journalist, here takes on the large subject of the iconic West Coast writer, writing teacher, and conservationist Wallace Stegner. Stegner (), who grew up on the frontier in the early parts of the century, became one of the first teachers of creative writing in America; numerous students of his went on to become household names. Wallace Stegner and the American West - Ebook written by Philip L. Fradkin. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Wallace Stegner and the American West.  · A lifelong teacher and environmentalist, Stegner inspired countless writers and defended the wilderness against human desecration. In this biography of man, place, and century, Fradkin traces Stegner's life across its many landscapes, and shows us how this child of the fading frontier became the voice, protector, and enduring icon of the West.

"Wallace Stegner's life could be described as a continual search for the angle of repose." By Philip L. Fradkin. Excerpted from Wallace Stegner and the American West by. Philip L. Fradkin is an American environmentalist historian, journalist and author. Fradkin has authored books ranging from Alaska, California and Nevada, with topics ranging from water conservation, earthquakes, and nuclear weapons. In , Fradkin was given the Californiana Award by the Commonwealth Club of California. Renowned environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reveals the Wallace Stegner behind the literary legacy-a generous teacher, conservationist, and man whose early landscapes shaped his life and character. Fradkin chronicles Stegner's formative years, from the raw, desolate plains of.

Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and international attention. A lifelong teacher and environmentalist, Stegner inspired countless writers and defended the wilderness against human desecration. In this biography of man, place, and century, Fradkin traces. Wallace Stegner and the American West was an all encompassing biography of the literary legend Wallace Stegner by Philip L. Fradkin. However, what distinguishes this book from the other biographies that have been written about Stegner is that they were written by profesors of literature tending to concentrate on his expansive body of literary works, while Fradkin states that he was more intrigued by the whole man -- and how the physical landscapes he inhabited influenced him.