A biographical film portrait of Wallace Stegner: Award-winning producer John Howe has captured Wallace Stegner's tremendous influence in a documentary film, capturing Stegner as many things, teacher, historian, environmentalist...but, above all, 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 30 full-length works and countless essays addressing the landscape, humankind’s footprint, and the evolution of a region and nation. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose, and his biography of John Wesley Powell, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, is hailed as the foundation of new thinking on the American environment. His writing program at Stanford has mentored some of America’s most acclaimed authors, including Larry McMurtry, Wendell Berry, Tillie Olsen and Edward Abbey. Featured guests interviewed for this film include Sandra Day O’Connor, Bruce Babbitt and Stuart Udall.

Run time: 1 hour

This is a featured event in the ONE BOOK STEAMBOAT 2016 community read of Wallace Stegner's novel, Angle of Repose.