Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Against the Grain--A Heritage of Integrity
1. The Last Homestead Frontier: A Prairie Childhood
2. From Primitive to Intellectual: The Education of Wallace Stegner
3. From Student to Professor: The Further Education of Wallace Stegner
4. Becoming a Novelist: Write a Novel and Win a Prize
5. Accomplished Writer, Harvard Teacher, and Friend to the Famous: What More Do You Need?
6. Hard Work at Harvard: Climbing the Big Rock Candy Mountain
7. Looking Back at the West From Cambridge
8. From the Fight Against Rugged Individualism to the Fight Against Prejudice and Racism
9. Back to Fiction, On to Stanford
10. Abandoning the Novel and Embracing the Short Story
11. From Short Story Writer to Environmentalist
12. To the Barricades for the Environment
13. Travel, Travel Literature, and the Search for Narrative Voice
14. An All-Star Cast
15. The Struggle to Locate Oneself
16. Historian and "Contemporary"
17. Trouble in the Sixties
18. A New Life
19. The Pulitzer and Beyond
20. Back to Biography and Another Prizewinning Novel
21. The Past That Comes Back to Haunt Us
22. Crossing to Safety
23. Giving All to Time
Notes and Documentation
Index