PHILIP L. FRADKIN
Tuesday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m.

An author and journalist who has covered and written about the American west with distinction—he's shared the Pulitzer Prize as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and written ten books, including A River No More - Philip Fradkin visits with a much-awaited new book, Wallace Stegner and the American West (Knopf). This life-and-times study is a revealing portrait of Wallace Stegner, the luminary author of major award-winning books such as Angle of Repose, The Spectator Bird, and numerous others. More than that, it offers insight on his invaluable role as a teacher at the Stanford Creative Writing Program, and mentor to several writers whose work would become significant. It also looks at how his beloved, adopted home country in and near the Palo Alto foothills was altered by the sweeping change that took the form and name of Silicon Valley. This is a book in which readers will learn much of how an ethos of this western country was created—and will help send them back to reading Stegner's extraordinary body of work.

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