In an excerpt from the letter, Stegner wrote: This letter was used to introduce the Wilderness Act, which established the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1964. In 1960, he wrote his famous Wilderness Letter on the importance of federal protection of wild places. Stegner joined the conservation movement in the 1950s while fighting the construction of a dam on Dinosaur National Monument’s Green River. Stegner also served as assistant to Stewart Udall, the secretary of the department of interior under President Kennedy. Wallace Stegner’s fiction novels include Pulitzer Prize winner “Angle of Repose,” National Book Award winner “The Spectator Bird” and “Crossing to Safety.” His nonfiction works include “Beyond the Hundredth Meridian” and “Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West.” This experience shaped Stegner’s writing and conservation ethic. Wallace Stegner’s family moved around the West throughout his youth as his father chased opportunities in North Dakota, Washington, Montana and California.
He has been called “the dean of Western writers.” He taught at the University of Utah, the University of Wisconsin, Harvard and Stanford.
Over a 60-year career, Stegner wrote over 60 fiction and non-fiction books.
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