Private lenders and the Federal Housing Authority would not provide financing to the group because three of the families were African-American. In the 1940s, Stegner was a leading member of the Peninsula Housing Association, a group of locals in Palo Alto aiming to build a large co-operative housing complex for Stanford University faculty and staff on a 260-acre ranch the group had purchased near campus. Page co-authored American Places and edited the 2008 Collected Letters of Wallace Stegner. Page was married to Lynn Stegner, a novelist. Stegner's son, Page Stegner, was a novelist, essayist, nature writer and professor emeritus at University of California, Santa Cruz. Stegner died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on April 13, 1993, as the result of a car accident on March 28, 1993. For 59 years they shared a "personal literary partnership of singular facility," in the words of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. In 1934, Stegner married Mary Stuart Page. He also studied at the University of Iowa, where he received a master's degree in 1932 and a doctorate in 1935. He was inducted into the Sigma Nu Hall of Honor at the 68th Grand Chapter in Washington D.C. While at the University of Utah he was initiated into Sigma Nu International Fraternity. While living in Utah, he joined a Boy Scout troop at an LDS Church (although he himself was a Lutheran) and earned the Eagle Scout award.
He was the son of Hilda (née Paulson) and George Stegner.
Stegner says he "lived in twenty places in eight states and Canada". Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, and grew up in Great Falls, Montana Salt Lake City, Utah and the village of Eastend, Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. Wallace Earle Stegner (Febru– April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers".
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