There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.

Page is married to Lynn Stegner a novelist. Stegner also won the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird in 1977.

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18 1909 – April 13 1993) was an American historian novelist short story writer and environmentalist often called "The Dean of Western Writers". National Book Award in 1977. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.