Page Stegner papers, 1969-2001

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Stegner, Page
Title
Page Stegner papers
Dates
1969-2001 (inclusive)
Quantity
14.5 linear feet, (21 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Collection Number
ACCN 1698
Summary
The Page Stegner papers (1969-2001) consist of manuscript drafts, finished manuscripts, galleys, published essays, interviews, correspondence, and news articles. This collection also contains drafts through page proofs of Marking the Sparrow's Fall: Wallace Stegner's American West, with an introduction written by Page Stegner.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Page Stegner was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1937, the son of Wallace Earle and Mary Page Stegner. He is a professor English at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has authored novels, numerous book reviews, and essays concerned with landscape and environment issues. Page and his wife, Lynn, live in California and in Vermont.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Page Stegner papers (1969-2001) consist of manuscript drafts, finished manuscripts, galleys, published essays, interviews, correspondence, and news articles. This collection also contains drafts through page proofs of Marking the Sparrow's Fall: Wallace Stegner's American West, with an introduction written by Page Stegner.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Cartons 1-3 were donated in 1999. Cartons 4-6 were donated in 2000.

Processing Note

Processed by Ann Reichman in 1999.

Addendum processed by Debra Allard in 2000.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Manuscripts and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1-2
Sierra Club Tribute to Wallace Stegner
This folder includes table of contents, manuscripts, and correspondence.
1 3-5
Call of River, manuscripts and correspondence
1 6
"Stone, Berry, Oates--and Other Grist from the Mill," in The Southern Review
1969
1 7
Reviews
1960
1 8
Reviews of The Edge
1966-1968
1 9
Copies of Articles
1970-1980
1 10
Reviews, Outposts of Eden and American Places
1981-1989
1 11
Reviews
1966-1969
1 12
"The Immortality of Art" and "Games Cards Play"
1966-1968

Publications, Reviews, and ManuscriptsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1-2
Publications: Reviews and Articles
2 3-4
Reviews
1970-1980
2 5
Reviews
1980s
2 6
Reviews of American Places
1981
2 7
Reviews
1991
2 8
First Proof "Deep Ecology"

ManuscriptsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 1
Fiction Writing Interview in The Writer
1972
3 2
Draft: Outposts from Eden
3 3-8
Drafts and Galleys Hawks and Harriers
1972
4
Hawks and Harriers Drafts and Reviews

Drafts and GalleysReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
5 1-5
The Edge Drafts
5 6
The Intruder
5 7
Manuscript Draft
5 8
Sports Car Menopause Galleys
6
Sports Car Menopause Drafts, Galleys, and Reviews
1984

ManuscriptsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
7 1
Folklore Materials
7 2-3
Manuscript Drafts: Confessions of an Onanist and Three
7 4-8
Islands in the West, Drafts, Settings, and Reviews
1967
8 1-5
Grand Canyon: The Great Abyss
1994
8 6-11
American Places
These folders contain excerpts, partial drafts, correspondence, and first proofs of the novel.
9 1-2
American Places Essays
9 3
The Redwood Curtain and Gem of the San Juans
9 4
New Riders of the Purple Sage and Life Along the Fault Line
9 5
Unfinished Business and The Breaks of the Missouri
9 6
Valediction for a River and Dry Land, Empty River
9 7
Parody's End, Review of Look at the Harlequins
1974
9 8
The Man who Came to Stay(The Intruder)
1969
9 9
Four Faces in Equador: the Napo, Finca on the Esmereldas, Otavalo, and Cuenca
9 10
Rocky Mountain Piece for The Atlantic Monthly
9 11
Steinbeck and Doc
1976
9 12
Hawks and Harriers Article
9 13
Narcosis and Morning Fog
9 14
Dead or Alive, It's a Hard Road
10 1
Headin't for the First Roundout
1974
10 2
Nadnapping in Santra Cruz, California
10 3
Profiles: Jake Bunzel
10 4
Sierra Articles
1982; 1994
10 5-6
Page Stegner Articles
11
Marking the Sparrow's Fall First Draft and Proofs
12
Marking the Sparrows Fall Second Drafts and Proofs
13
Outposts of Eden and Islands of the West Drafts

Story and Essay Subject Files: A-WReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
14 1
A Region with a View: California Essays
14 2
The Bright Edge of the World
14 3
Colorado Plateau Ecoregion
14 4
Desert Crossing
14 5
Drowning Party on the Owyhee
14 6
Gem of the San Juan
14 7
Mojave Ramble: A Pilgrimage Through the California Desert
14 8
Rafting the McCloud
14 9
Reclaiming the desert: Alan Cranston's Desert Protection Act
14 10
Stalking the Wild Boar
14 11
Walking
14 12
Whose Woods These Are

Research Correspondence for The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner, 1941-2005Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
15 1-2
Ansel Adams
1961-2005
15 3
Don Allen
1989-1993
15 4
Wendell Barry
1958-2004
15 5-6
Jackson Benson
1986-1993
15 7-8
Carl Brandt
1985-2004
15 9-10
Fawn Brodie
1941-1972
15 11
David Brower
15 12
Sharon Butela
1987-1992
15 13
Nancy Colberg
1982-2003
15 14
Malcolm Cowley
1968-2004
16 1
John Daniel
1983-2003
16 2
Bernard DeVoto
1947-1977
16 3
Ivan Doig
1980-2003
16 4
Paul Engle
16 5
Dick Etulain
1980-2004
16 6
Phillip Fradkin
2004-2005
16 7
John Frederick
1942-2003
16 8
Robert Frost-Norman Forester
1970-1983
16 9
Robert Ganzoneri
1962-1970
16 10-13
Phil and Peg Grey
1943-1995
16 14
Jim Hepworth
1981-2003
16 15
James Houston
1966-1993
17 1
Louis and Esther Kesselman
1944-1982
17 2
Bill Kiiteredge
1990-2003
17 3
Mary Beth LaDow
17 4
John Leggett
1965-1974
17 5
John L' Heureux
1982
17 6
John Livermore
1992-1993
17 7
Barry Lopez
1991
17 8
Janet Micoleau
1970-1976
17 9
Theodore Morrison
1942-1947
17 10
David Packard
1959-1967
17 11
Forest Robinson
1972-2003
17 12
Charles Schermerhorn
1987-2008
17 13
Mark Schorer
1942
17 13
Dick Scowcroft
1944-1973
17 14
Merrill Spiro
1962-1974
17 15
George Stewart
1947-2000
17 16
Robert Stone
1967
17 17
Ross Toole Eulogy
1981
17 18
Stewart Udall
17 19
Walter Van Tilberg Clark
1968-2004
17 20
T. H. Watkins Book Proposal
2001
17 21
Charles Wilkinson
1986-1991
17 22
Miscellaneous Correspondence
1940-1993

Research Materials, A-UReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
18 1
All the Little Live Things
1994-1998
18 2
Answel Adams Eulogy Permissions
2003
18 3
Biographers, Bibliographers, and Critics
18 4
BYU Photo Request Correspondence
2001-2002
18 5
Stegner on Conservation
1953-1991
18 6
Editors and Agents Correspondence
1991-1992
18 7
Friends and Former Students
18 8
The Literary Life Correspondence
1961-1992
18 9
Permissions
18 10
Printed Material
18 11
Research Scans
18 12
Remembering Laughter Correspondence
2002-2003
18 13
Royalty Payments
2000
18 14
Wallace Stegner Essays, Talks, and Reviews
18 15
Stegner Documents
2000-2003
18 16
Trust for Public Lands Brochure
2003
18 17
Utah State University Press
2002

Reviews, Documents, and EssaysReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
19 1-2
Reviews and other Documents Written by Page Stegner
19 3-4
Correspondence and Articles written about The Edge of Tolerance
1981
19 5
University of Montana Talk about Wallace Stegner
1993
19 6
Introduction for Robert Redford, Herbst Theatre San Francisco
19 7
Sierra Club Talk, Carmel California
19 8
Escalante Correspondence and Clippings
1994
19 9
California State Parks
19 10
Untitled Manuscript
19 11
Editors Introduction to Viking Portable
19 12
General materials
19 13
General materials
19 14
Article on Central Arizona Project

Family DocumentsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
20 1
Family Correspondence
1934-1971
20 2
Lynn and Alison Stegner to Mary Stegner
2003-2006
20 3
Page, Lynn, and Alison Stegner to Mary Stegner
2003-2005
20 4
Page Stegner to Mary Stegner
2004
20 5
Rachael Stegner
1979-1988
20 6
Wallace Page Stegner
1972-1991
20 7
Mary Stegner Miscellaneous Correspondence
1998-2003
20 8
Greet Cards and Clippings
2004-2006
20 9
Not Sent
2003-2006

Manuscripts, Eco-Projects, and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
21 1
Stewart, Tabor, and Chang Correspondence
1992-1993
21 2
Canyondlands, Completing the Park
21 3
The Great Salt Lake Wetlands Conference
2001
21 4
The Nature Conservancy Project
1993
21 5-6
Angle of Repose Screenplay
21 7
Wallace Stegner Correspondence
The correspondence in this folder is all book-related and part of Page Stegner's book The Collected Letters of Wallace Stegner.
21 8
Manuscript
map-case-folder
1
Book Introduction and Page Layout

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Authors, American--Biography--Sources

Personal Names

  • Stegner, Page--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

  • Articles
  • Correspondence
  • Drafts (documents)
  • Interviews