Matthew D. Stewart teaches humanities at The Ambrose School in Meridian, Idaho, and is associate editor at Front Porch Republic. He holds a PhD in history from Syracuse University.
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Part field guide to Wallace Stegner's California novels, part hymn to Stegner's ideas of community and place, Matthew Stewart's graceful book asks what role the 20th-century California suburbs played in the author's famed geography of hope." - Tara Penry, past president, Western Literature Association "Provocative, extraordinarily well researched, and especially thoughtful. Matthew Stewart's study is a work of intellectual history, or if one wishes, a history of ideas. Through close, revealing readings of Stegner's novels and stories about California, Stewart provides a path-breaking examination of Stegner's thoughts, especially as they are related to such ideas as community, home, place, character, and sociocultural change." - Richard W. Etulain, University of New Mexico "Matthew Stewart is a historian who takes Stegner's fiction seriously as a guide to his thought about historical and social questions. His book offers an important and valuable reexamination of this multifaceted figure in the West." - William Handley, University of Southern California