Stealing glances

Stegner talks in these interviews about his early training and apprenticeship, about the contemporary situation of Western writers, the environment, history and fiction, teaching creative writing, and those writers who have influenced and informed his work. These interviews reflect Hepworth's familiarity with Stegner's life, work, and ideas and, as a result, are more revealing than earlier Stegner interviews on the craft of writing, the nature of literature, and his own experiences as a writer. Stegner addresses important questions on his Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the most autobiographical of his novels, Crossing to Safety.