Reveals the Wallace Stegner behind the literary legacy - a generous teacher, conservationist, and man whose early landscapes shaped his life and character. This title chronicles Stegner's formative years, from the raw, desolate plains of Saskatchewan and the canyonlands of Utah to California's Silicon Valley.
"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
"Fradkin is the perfect fit to study Stegner's career in the West. . . . This is a fine [assessment]."
