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By David Rothman

image When will all prominent novelists be in E? Alas, we have a long way to go. Bellow, much of Roth, zillions of others, are AWOL. And how about non-American writers?

But Penguin has made progress with the publication of six of novelist Wallace Stegner’s works to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Shown is the cover of Angle of Repose. The news release follows.

PENGUIN’S FIRST EBOOK PUBLICATION OF WALLACE STEGNER’S WORK

 

Penguin Classics Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Wallace Stegner’s Birth with Publication of Six New eBooks

 

 

 

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) published more than two dozen works of fiction, history, biography, and essays throughout his life, including the novels Angle of Repose, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and The Spectator Bird, which won the National Book Award. A collection of essays, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An early environmentalist, Stegner championed the preservation of the American West and was instrumental—with his now-famous “Wilderness Letter”—in the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act.  The six titles to be published as Penguin Classics eBooks in honor of Wallace Stegner’s centenary are: Angle of Repose, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, The Spectator Bird, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, All the Little Live Things, and On Teaching and Writing Fiction.

 

 “For the centennial of Wallace Stegner’s birth, Penguin Classics—Stegner’s principal publisher—is delighted to make available to users of twenty-first-century book technology the beloved books of one of the twentieth century’s great American writers. An early environmentalist, Stegner wrote with reverence about the natural world, and we believe the eco-friendliness of these new eBook editions would’ve pleased the novelist, essayist, biographer, and teacher who remains an inspiration to the green movement.”

- John Siciliano, Editor, Penguin Classics

 

 

The publication of Wallace Stegner’s work in eBook format continues Penguin’s mission to connect the writer to the reader in whatever format the reader selects.  These six Stegner titles are presently downloadable and priced between $15.00 and $16.00.

 
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