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Wallace Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, on February 18, 1909.
* He grew up in Great Falls, Montana, and Salt Lake City, Utah.
* He graduated from the University of Utah in 1930.
* He taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard before joining the faculty at Stanford University in 1946.
* He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972 for his novel Angle of Repose.
* He was also a recipient of the National Book Award and the U.S. National Medal of Arts.
* He died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on April 13, 1993.
* He is considered one of the most important American writers of the 20th century.
* His work explores themes of the American West, the environment, and the human condition.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Wallace Stegner

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner

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