Model for many characters in his books: characters who relentlessly and thoughtlessly sought personal gain without any consideration for who or what they destroyed in the process. As he said later, "What I most wanted was to belong to something" ( Audubon). Reading and writing gave him a hold on the world. Stegner purposely set out to be unlike his father by becoming bookish. George Stegner's life ended violently when he killed a woman he was with and then took his own life. The family finally settled in Saskatchewan, Canada, although Stegner's father alternated between living with his wife and two sons to roaming the frontier, in search of his ultimate opportunity. Most of his childhood was spent moving from place to place as his father, George Stegner, a restless schemer, searched for a way to get rich quick. Wallace Stegner was born on February 18, 1909, in the rural community of Lake Mills, Iowa. Although sometimes categorized as merely a "western writer," Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was more than that: he wrote 30 books, both fiction and nonfiction, served as a mentor to many young writers, and worked in support of conservation issues throughout his lifetime.
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