Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by American novelist Wallace Stegner about Lyman Ward, a wheelchair using historian who has lost connection with his son and living family and turns to writing about his frontier era grandparents. Stegner drew directly on the actual letters of Mary Hallock Foote, later published as A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West, using substantial passages from them as the correspondence of his fictional character Susan Burling Ward, a choice that remains controversial among some scholars over the permission he obtained to use her writing. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972, and in 1998 the Modern Library ranked it eighty second on its list of the hundred best English language novels of the twentieth century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/