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Author:   Jackson J. Benson
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   Bison Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780803225374

ISBN 10:   0803225377
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   01 May 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Against the Grain--A Heritage of Integrity1. The Last Homestead Frontier: A Prairie Childhood2. From Primitive to Intellectual: The Education of Wallace Stegner3. From Student to Professor: The Further Education of Wallace Stegner4. Becoming a Novelist: Write a Novel and Win a Prize5. Accomplished Writer, Harvard Teacher, and Friend to the Famous: What More Do You Need?6. Hard Work at Harvard: Climbing the Big Rock Candy Mountain7. Looking Back at the West From Cambridge8. From the Fight Against Rugged Individualism to the Fight Against Prejudice and Racism9. Back to Fiction, On to Stanford10. Abandoning the Novel and Embracing the Short Story11. From Short Story Writer to Environmentalist12. To the Barricades for the Environment13. Travel, Travel Literature, and the Search for Narrative Voice14. An All-Star Cast15. The Struggle to Locate Oneself16. Historian and Contemporary 17. Trouble in the Sixties18. A New Life19. The Pulitzer and Beyond20. Back to Biography and Another Prizewinning Novel21. The Past That Comes Back to Haunt Us22. Crossing to Safety23. Giving All to TimeNotes and DocumentationIndex

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In this engrossing work, Benson offers a portrait of a resilient truth-seeker, steadfast moralist, obsessive realist, and compassionate humanist who became the standard-bearer for western regionalist writing. --Booklist

In this engrossing work, Benson offers a portrait of a resilient truth-seeker, steadfast moralist, obsessive realist, and compassionate humanist who became the standard-bearer for western regionalist writing. -Booklist Booklist Benson has written with admiration and fairness this first full-scale study of Stegner's life and accomplishments... Highly recommended. -Library Journal Library Journal Benson is doing a fine job re-discovering Western writers. -California Territorial Quarterly California Territorial Quarterly

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Jackson J. Benson is a professor of English emeritus at San Diego State University. He is the author of several books, including The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and most recently, Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr. (Nebraska 2009).

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