Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
Author and historian Wallace Stegner, who sought to capture places in his writing that spanned the entire American West, died 25 years ago this spring. For Utah readers of the Pulitzer Prize winner, some details from seven decades of creative writing, essays and interviews on a region so vast might seem familiar, even personal.
That's because despite all the places he'd been, Stegner's time in Utah as a teenager and University of Utah student, then professor, was never far from his mind.
Stegner experienced both happiness and despair in his 14 years in Utah (1921-30 and 1934-37), according to the U.'s Wallace Stegner Center. Teenage years lived in Salt Lake City provided "images for a lifetime of nostalgia," but complicated family matters from his youth made his memories of some of the city's places "bleak," the center noted.
[To read the full story go to DeseretNews.com](<http://www.ksl.com/ad_logger/ad_logger.php?location=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900015329/utah-observations-from-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-wallace-stegner-25-years-after-his-death.html&sponsor=Utah observations from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner, 25 years after his death>).
