Word: stegner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original Briggs-Copeland program, which was started in the early 1930's employed many instructors who have since grown to national prominence. Notable examples are Professor Mark Schorer of the University of California, Professor Wallace Stegner of Stanford, and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur...
Twentieth century commentaries are also included and form some of the most interesting material in the book, especially those of Juanita Brooks, Dale. L. Morgan, Samuel W. Taylor, and Wallace Stegner whose eulogy to Salt Lake City concludes the volume. Indeed, the major complaint one can find with Among the Mormons is that the accounts are concentrated too heavily in the earlier periods of Mormon history, giving the book an overly academic tone...
Perhaps the most interesting case study is that of Mormon culture, an area of small population, but one which has producer an amazing number of good writers. Ezra Pound, Vardis Fisher, Maureen Whipple. Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto (the last two having both attended Harvard, a long, long, ways in all respects from Mormon Country). Like the South, Mormon Country has a very colorful history, established mode of life, and a much more definite set of values than even the South. Also like the South, and Ireland, and Russia, this has been a region in direct conflict with a larger culture...
...original society, there is still a need to justify, having been exposed to conflicting values. Pound, Fisher, and DeVoto rejected Mormon values. In Fisher and DeVoto can clearly be seen a marked concern for saying something (and justifying), rather than that with form and style. Whipple and Stegner, in large part, accepted Mormon culture but felt that they need to explain why they did so. There are a host of excellent minor poets and novelists born in Mormon Country, but writers of prose predominate: in this gendre there is more opportunity for idea-expression than in poetry's emphasis upon...
...Miller, president of the Authors' Guild: "In the igth century, the novelist turned out a book a year. He could make a living at it. Now a novelist writes a book every three years because he is doing things in between." Many writers teach, e.g., Lionel Trilling, Wallace Stegner, Katherine Anne Porter. Margaret Cousins, Karl Shapiro and John Crowe Ransom edit magazines. Some write for the movies, where it is easy to forget the novel-writing urge. By one estimate, just two Americans made a living by poetry in the early 1950s-Robert Frost and Ogden Nash. But Frost...