![]() ![]() Instead, Stegner took the events of Foote’s life and altered her character. They were expecting something like a biographical novel. That granddaughter apparently hoped that Stegner’s use of the material in the novel might reignite interest in her grandmother’s largely forgotten life and writing, which it did.īut the family wasn’t happy after the novel was published. Stegner received permission from one of Foote’s granddaughters to use the letters and memoir as he saw fit. ![]() Stegner quoted thirty-eight passages from Foote’s letters (not her memoir, according to Jackson Benson’s introduction to the novel), which came to roughly sixty-three pages of text in a novel of over 600 pages. In the New Yorker, Roxana Robinson revisits the old story of Wallace Stegner’s use of Mary Hallock Foote’s unpublished memoir and letters for his novel The Angle of Repose. ![]()
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