BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Halo Effect, and In-Group Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 28% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 278 faulty-reasoning hits from 200 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.7% and a BS Rank of â 69% (8,821 of 27,739 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 68.20% of the article peer group.
Wallace Stegner made a name for himself writing about the place that shaped him: the Mountain West and the people there.Â
Alex Beamâs biography tells the story.Â
For much of Stegnerâs life, he felt his writing was neglected by the literary establishment, which seemed to favor authors from the eastern and southern parts of the nation.Â
Stegner, though, was raised in Salt Lake City, and some of his novels take place there.Â
He wrote a book about John Wesley Powell and one about the Mormon trek from Illinois to Utah.Â
He was concerned with the arid, mountainous parts of the country, west of the 100th meridian.Â
He taught creative writing at Stanford for many years, too, instructing the likes of Ken Kesey, Edward Abbey and Wendell Berry.Â
And his1971 novel, âAngle of Repose,â won the Pulitzer Prize.Â
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