Order of Wallace Stegner Books
Wallace Stegner was an American author considered to be the “Dean of Western Writers”. He wrote numerous books throughout his career including The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the Pulitzer Prize winning Angle of Repose, and the National Book Award winning The Spectator Bird.
Stegner was born in Iowa, but grew up across the United States and Canada. In his life, he lived in twenty different places including eight different US states. Stegner would go on to attend the University of Utah where he graduated in 1930 before heading to the University of Iowa where he earned his Master’s degree and a doctorate. He would also go on to teach at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, and Stanford University. At Stanford, he founded the creative writing program and had many famous students during his time.
Publication Order of Brude Mason Books
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain |
(1943) |
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Recapitulation |
(1979) |
Publication Order of American Folkways Books
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Mormon Country |
(1942) |
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Blue Ridge Country |
(2007) |
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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Remembering Laughter |
(1937) |
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The Potter’s House |
(1938) |
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On a Darkling Plain |
(1940) |
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Fire and Ice |
(1941) |
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Second Growth |
(1947) |
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Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel |
(1950) |
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A Shooting Star |
(1961) |
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All the Little Live Things |
(1967) |
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Angle of Repose |
(1971) |
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The Spectator Bird |
(1976) |
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Crossing to Safety |
(1987) |
Publication Order of Collections
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The Women on the Wall |
(1950) |
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The City of the Living & Other Stories |
(1956) |
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The Writer’s Art |
(1972) |
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The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner |
(1990) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian |
(1954) |
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This Is Dinosaur |
(1955) |
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Wolf Willow |
(1962) |
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The Gathering of Zion |
(1964) |
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Teaching the Short Story |
(1966) |
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The Sound of Mountain Water |
(1969) |
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Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil |
(1971) |
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The Uneasy Chair |
(1974) |
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The letters of Bernard DeVoto |
(1975) |
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The Writer in America |
(1976) |
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One Way To Spell Man |
(1982) |
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Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History & Literature |
(1983) |
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American Places |
(1985) |
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The American West as Living Space |
(1987) |
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On the Teaching of Creative Writing |
(1988) |
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Wilderness at the Edge |
(1991) |
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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs |
(1992) |
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Marking the Sparrow’s Fall |
(1998) |
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On Teaching and Writing Fiction |
(2002) |
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The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner |
(2007) |
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The Selected Letters |
(2007) |
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Wallace Stegner’s West |
(2008) |
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The Twilight of Self Reliance |
(2008) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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50 Great American Short Stories |
(1963) |
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Unknown California |
(1985) |
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The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories |
(1990) |
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Prose and Poetry of the American West |
(1991) |
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Late Harvest |
(1991) |
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Our Mothers’ Spirits: Great Writers on the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men |
(1997) |
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Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers |
(2002) |
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The Little Big Book of California |
(2005) |
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The Driftless Reader |
(2017) |