Wallace Stegner and the American West

Reviews

“Sparkles with insights, well-turned phrases, and lively pen portraits.”—Books & Culture: A Christian Review

“This is a splendid scholarly study of America’s most important twentieth-century interpreter of the West.”—Malcolm Rohrbough The Annals Of Iowa

“In his illuminating biography, Fradkin goes beyond Stegner’s iconic literary status to give us, as well, the influential teacher and visionary conservationist, the man for whom the preservation and integrity of place was as important as his ability to render its qualities and character in his brilliantly crafted fiction and nonfiction.”—Entrada Institute

“Fradkin is the perfect fit to study Stegner’s career in the West, as he himself is also a polished writer, historian and environmentalist. . . . Fradkin is a fan of Stegner and his works, but he gives us an objective rundown on the writer, not skipping has character flaws. This is a fine [assessment].”—Richard H. Dillon Old West/True West Magazine

“Respectful of his subject but never worshipful, Fradkin has given us our first full critical portrait of the man and his protean career..”—Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West