Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Remembering Laughter | 1937 |
| The Potter’s House | 1938 |
| On a Darkling Plain | 1940 |
| Fire and Ice | 1941 |
| The Big Rock Candy Mountain | 1943 |
| Second Growth | 1947 |
| The Preacher and the Slave / Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel | 1950 |
| A Shooting Star | 1961 |
| All the Little Live Things | 1967 |
| Angle of Repose | 1971 |
| The Spectator Bird | 1976 |
| Recapitulation | 1979 |
| Crossing to Safety | 1987 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Women on the Wall | 1950 |
| The City of the Living and Other Stories | 1956 |
| Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner | 1990 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Mormon Country | 1942 |
| One Nation | 1945 |
| The Writer in America | 1952 |
| Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West | 1954 |
| This Is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and Its Magic Rivers | 1955 |
| Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier | 1962 |
| The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail | 1964 |
| The Sound of Mountain Water | 1969 |
| Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil | 1971 |
| The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto | 1974 |
| One Way to Spell Man | 1982 |
| Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature (With: Richard W. Etulain) | 1983 |
| American Places (With: Page Stegner) | 1985 |
| The American West as Living Space | 1987 |
| On the Teaching of Creative Writing | 1988 |
| Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West | 1992 |
| Marking the Sparrow’s Fall | 1998 |
| On Teaching and Writing Fiction | 2002 |
About Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist, historian and environmentalist, often called “The Dean of Western Writers”. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972 for “Angle of Repose” and the National Book Award in 1977 for “The Spectator Bird”, and he founded the creative writing programme at Stanford University.
Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, on 18 February 1909 and grew up in Great Falls, Montana, in Salt Lake City and in the village of Eastend, Saskatchewan. He took his BA at the University of Utah in 1930, then a master’s degree and a doctorate at the University of Iowa. In 1934 he married Mary Stuart Page; their son, Page Stegner, also became a writer.
His first novel, “Remembering Laughter” (1937), won a contest run by the publisher Little, Brown. “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” (1943) is semi-autobiographical: it follows the Mason family as they move between towns in the United States and Canada in pursuit of schemes that never pay off. Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard before settling at Stanford, where his students included Wendell Berry, Edward Abbey, Ken Kesey and Larry McMurtry. The Stegner Fellowship there is named after him.
“Angle of Repose” (1971) is narrated by Lyman Ward, a historian who uses a wheelchair and sets out to write about his frontier-era grandparents. The novel draws directly on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote, and Stegner’s use of passages from them is still disputed. “The Spectator Bird” (1976) concerns Joe Allston, a retired literary agent who goes back to a diary of a trip to Denmark. His last novel, “Crossing to Safety” (1987), is a semi-autobiographical study of a long friendship.
His non-fiction includes “Beyond the Hundredth Meridian” (1954), a biography of the explorer John Wesley Powell, and “Wolf Willow” (1962), about the Saskatchewan of his boyhood. He edited “This Is Dinosaur” (1955), a Sierra Club book used in the campaign against dams in Dinosaur National Monument, served as a special assistant to Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and sat on the Sierra Club board from 1964 to 1966. He died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 13 April 1993 from injuries sustained in a car accident two weeks earlier.