FTP name this author, perhaps best knwon for the 1972 Pulitzer winner Angle of Repose.
Some of this author's  non-fiction works include a biography of John Wesley Powell entitled Beyond the Hundredth Meridian and histories of Mormon settlement of Utah  in Mormon Country and The Gathering of Utah, while his The Preacher and the Slave was a fictionalisation of the life of labor leader Joe Hill. Beginning his career with short works like Remembering Laughter and On a Darkling Plain, he scored commercial successes with later works like the Big Rock Candy Mountain and A Shooting Star, while his The Spactator Bird won the National Book Award in 1977, five years after he won the Pulitzer for what is probably his best known work. FTP name this author, perhaps best knwon for the 1972 Pulitzer winner Angle of Repose.
Some of this author's  non-fiction works include a biography of John Wesley Powell entitled Beyond the Hundredth Meridian and histories of Mormon settlement of Utah  in Mormon Country and The Gathering of Utah, while his The Preacher and the Slave was a fictionalisation of the life of labor leader Joe Hill.
Wallace Stegner