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Wallace Stegner

American historian, writer, and environmentalist (1909-1993) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 84

Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.

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1993Died13 April 19931982Sierra Club John Muir AwardAward1977National Book AwardAward1972Pulitzer Prize for FictionAward1959Guggenheim FellowshipAward1952Guggenheim FellowshipAward1950O. Henry AwardAward1949Guggenheim FellowshipAward1946Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsAward1909Born18 February 1909

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