Guide to the Wallace Stegner miscellaneous papers
Jenny Johnson
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
February 2014
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: SC1188
Creator:
Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-1993
Title: Wallace Stegner miscellaneous papers
Dates: circa 1944-1992
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
Summary: Papers include miscellaneous files about Stanford University, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the Stanford University Creative
Writing Program, and research and writings about Bernard De Voto.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
This collection was given by Mary Stegner to Stanford University, Special Collections in June, 1999.
Information about Access
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
[identification of item], Wallace Stegner miscellaneous papers (SC1188). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
Wallace Earle Stegner was born February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa. Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story
writer, and environmentalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. He received a B.A.
at the University of Utah in 1930. He also studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he received
a master's degree in 1932 and a doctorate in 1935. Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Eventually
he settled at Stanford University, where he founded the creative writing program. Stegner died on April 13, 1993.
Scope and Contents
Papers include miscellaneous files about Stanford University, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the Stanford University Creative
Writing Program, and research and writings about Bernard De Voto.
Access Terms
De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955
Stanford University. Creative Writing Program
Stegner, Mary
Creative writing--Study and teaching.
Mormons--Utah--History.
Stanford University--History.
Box 1, Folder 1
Four Portraits and One Subject: Bernard De Voto, by Wallace Stegner
1991
Box 1, Folder 2
Stanford University related correspondence
1944-1992
Box 1, Folder 3
History of Stanford Fellowships
1985-1986
Box 1, Folder 4
Stanford Writing Program
1982-1990
Box 1, Folder 5
Civil Liberties - Bruce Franklin
1972
Box 1, Folder 7
Bernard De Voto - Literary History of the America West
1980-1988
Box 1, Folder 8
De Voto's Western Adventure
1973
Box 1, Folder 9
Bernard De Voto and the Mormons: Three Letters,
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
1971 Winter
Box 1, Folder 11
Disappearance of Plot in the English Short Story: 1875-1910, by Suzanne Ferguson
Box 1, Folder 12
The Imprint of the Stanford University Library Associates
1977-1983
