![]() ![]() Lyman, who is crippled, rancorous and stubbornly independent, lives in the last house his grandmother occupied before she died. With the modern time period in place, Stegner then created a fictional family whose patriarch Lyman Ward is a retired history professor and grandson of Susan and Oliver. Next, Stegner time-stamped his apocryphal tale in the 1970’s. By doing this he effectively placed Mary’s true, historical memoirs within a fictional setting. Stegner knew two members of the Foote family, and with permission from them, he used Mary Hallock Foote’s letters of the time spent in the rugged and unsettled West as the basis of his novel.įor Angle of Repose, Stegner changed the names of Mary and Arthur Foote to Susan Burling Ward and Oliver Ward. Angle of Repose is an enthralling book based on the lives of East coast born Quaker writer and illustrator, Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938), and her pioneer, mining engineer husband, Arthur De Wint Foote (1849-1933). While I was doing some New Year-inspired reorganizing of bookshelves, Angle of Repose (Penguin Books 1971), a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by William Stegner, rose up from among the stacks. ![]()
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