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Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment
Quinney College of Law, The University of Utah
332 South 1400 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Website: http://www.law.utah.edu/stegner/
Email: Located on left hand site of this web page
Phone: (801) 581-6833
Wallace Stegner (1909 ?¢?? 1993) was a novelist, historian, short story writer and environmentalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972 for his novel, Angle of Repose. He was the recipient of a number of additional awards, including the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird in 1977. In 1992 he refused an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, expressing his opposition to the way that the NEA had become politicized in recent years.
Stegner, who was born and raised in the Western states and is often referred to as ?¢??The Dean of Western Letters?¢??, sought to debunk the romantic vision of the American West as a place full of heroes on horseback. He was an ardent environmentalist, who worked actively to preserve the West?¢??s remaining wilderness. He is remembered at the University of Utah?¢??s Quinney College of Law with the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment. The Center?¢??s mission is to address the environmental challenges confronting the region, balancing conservation and with the West?¢??s history of resource extraction and development. The center offers a variety of programs, including a bagged lunch lecture series. The Wallace Stegner Collection at the University?¢??s library showcases portraits, family photographs, and the author?¢??s honorary degrees.
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