![]() Stegner’s initial application to Bread Loaf was rejected, but he later spent eight summers strolling its meadows and talking books with such writers as Eudora Welty, Truman Capote and Vermont poet Robert Frost, who lived in the nearby village of Ripton. It wasn’t until Stegner was earning graduate degrees at the University of Iowa in the early 1930s that he began to imagine himself attending Bread Loaf and hobnobbing with Ivy League literati. ![]() ![]() As a precocious teenager, he had attended the University of Utah while working odd jobs and covering amateur sports for a local newspaper. ![]() Benson says the writer’s early experiences here helped him to develop confidence and hone his literary voice.īread Loaf was a major change of scene for the young Stegner. ![]()
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