WALLACE STEGNER

WALLACE STEGNER

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

This film is a portrait of the conservationist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner. He was many things: teacher, historian and environmentalist but, above all, Wallace Stegner was a writer. Considered by many to be the “Dean” of western writers, he was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and non-fiction author, with more than thirty full-length works and countless essays addressing the landscape, humankind’s footprint and the evolution of a region and nation. Award-winning producer John Howe has captured the tremendous influence Stegner has been on the lives of generations of readers and students.

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor also was a student. Stegner’s The Wilderness Letter became the conscience of the conservation movement. This one-hour documentary paints a portrait of the West that Stegner so loved and reveals insights into his life through interviews with his famous students, contemporaries and family. Peter Coyote narrates.