Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West

“The true masterpiece . . . Among the finest work about the West and its meanings . . . Everyone who lives in the West, or loves it, should pay attention to Stegner.”
―Los Angeles Times

Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since his death, Stegner's son Page has collected, annotated, and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in any edition, as well as a little-known novella and several of Stegner's best-known essays on the American West. Seventy-five percent of the contents of this body of work is published here for the first time.