In Wallace Stegner: Dean of Western Writers, published by Signature Books in February 2025, this longtime Boston Globe columnist and author takes readers on a brisk and riveting journey through Stegner’s life and complicated legacy. As one of the most distinguished chroniclers of the American West, Stegner wrote fourteen novels and seventeen works of nonfiction during a career that spanned half a century. Alex Beam has written two novels and seven works of nonfiction, including two New York Times Notable Books of the Year. In 2014, Beam also authored American Crucifixion, a narrative history of the assassination of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. Alex Beam was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member John A. (Jack) Farrell.