His first critical success involved the Mason family's move west and was 1943's The Big Rock Candy Mountain, and other works include the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird.  
Born in Saskatchewan, most of his works are set in the American West and dealt with the potential of individuals, which he called the "geography of promise."  His nonfiction includes two histories of Mormon settlement in Utah and a 1954 biography of John Wesley Powell.  His first critical success involved the Mason family's move west and was 1943's The Big Rock Candy Mountain, and other works include the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird.  FTP name this American author most famous for Angle of Repose.
Born in Saskatchewan, most of his works are set in the American West and dealt with the potential of individuals, which he called the "geography of promise."  
Wallace Stegner