The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, February 18, 2007 "Greed" by Tony Hoagland, from Hard Rain: a Chapbook. © Hollyridge Press. ORIGINAL TEXT - 2007 ORIGINAL AUDIO - 2007 It's the birthday of novelist and teacher Wallace Stegner, born in Lake Mills, Iowa (1909). His father was a schemer who was constantly moving the family from place to place, hoping to strike it rich in one of the Western boomtowns. He watched as his father tried and failed to plant a farm in North Dakota, tried and failed to run a lunchroom in the backwoods of Washington state, sold bootleg liquor in Great Falls, Montana, poured the family's savings into an invention that was supposed to detect gold in the ground, and finally bought a piece of redwood forest in California, only to cut it all down and sell it for firewood. By the time Stegner was 20, he had lived in more than 20 different houses, including, at one point, a derailed dining car. But though he had a tough childhood, Stegner grew to love the great open wilderness of the American West.
Enjoyed the bio on Stegner. Thx from NH. We loved yr Sat night when our kids were young!
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Enjoyed the bio on Stegner. Thx from NH. We loved yr Sat night when our kids were young!
Prairie Home Companion!. Thank you