![]() ![]() Born in Iowa on his grandfather’s farm, he spent his boyhood in Saskatchewan, Canada, and his youth in Salt Lake City. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-93) was the founder and for twenty five years director of Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program. ![]() ![]() I am eternally grateful to him and still have the scrap of paper – menu on one side, ‘Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose’, on the other – which I stuffed into my tiny bag. My businessman, more interested in fiction than foreign exchange, tells me, the book junkie, of a wonderful American author of whom I am ignorant. Either he won’t read, ‘except on planes when I buy whatever I can find at the airport’, or his answer will be as revealing as if I had asked him to tell me his life story. At a loss, I ask what sort of books he enjoys. The conversation dries up after the soup. I am next to a businessman at a formal dinner. ![]()
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