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{{Short description|1971 novel by Wallace Stegner}}
{{For|the engineering term|Angle of repose}}
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| media_type        = Print (hardback & paperback)
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| congress          = PS3537.T316 A8 1992
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'''''Angle of Repose''''' is a 1971 novel by [[Wallace Stegner]] about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents. It won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 1972. The novel is directly based on the letters of [[Mary Hallock Foote]], later published as ''[[A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West]]''.

Stegner's use of substantial passages from Foote's actual letters as the correspondence of his fictional character Susan Burling Ward was and remains controversial among some scholars.<ref>Fradkin (2008), 8</ref><ref>Reynolds (2007)</ref> While Stegner's defenders have claimed that he had received permission to use Foote's writings,<ref>Reynolds (2003)</ref> as the book's acknowledgments page implies, others point out that he secured that permission only after falsely claiming that his novel would not use any direct quotations.<ref name="Hall2022">{{Cite web |last=Sands Hall |date=2022-04-04 |title=Digging Into Wallace Stegner's Theft of a Literary Life |url=https://www.altaonline.com/books/fiction/a39179237/wallace-stegner-mary-hallock-foote-plagarism/ |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=Alta Online |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1998, the [[Modern Library]] ranked ''Angle of Repose'' #82 on its list of the [[Modern Library 100 Best Novels|100 best English-language novels of the 20th century]].