Background
He is the son of novelist Wallace Stegner.
He is the son of novelist Wallace Stegner.
Stanford University.
Stegner received his Bachelor of Arts in history from Stanford University in 1959, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in American literature in 1964. He served as a Professor of American Literature and Director of the creative writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1965 to 1995, at which time he focused his efforts on writing. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1980), a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (1981) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982).
He lives in Vermont.