Wallace Stegner and the American West (Nonfiction)

Fradkin is the perfect fit to study Stegner’s career in the West, as he himself is also a polished writer, historian and environmentalist. Stegner was that, as well as a novelist and a gifted teacher who made his Creative Writing program at Stanford University the finest in the country. There he mentored writers like Ed Abbey, Wendell Berry and Larry McMurty. Although Stegner preferred to be known as a novelist, the so-called Dean of Western Literature is probably best remembered as a leade