Description
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, printed materials, photographs, and documents relating chiefly to the writing and
publication of two works by Stegner, A SHOOTING STAR and THE GATHERING OF ZION. Also includes material on Mormonism used as
background for later work.
Background
Wallace Earle Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, February 18, 1909. A prize winning novelist and author also of articles
and short stories, Stegner has been a professor of English at Stanford University since 1945.
Restrictions
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.