My Friend Wallace
Stegner won the Pulitzer in 1972 for this novel, wherein Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents’ family story.
Angle of Repose
Known for her early roles in E.T. and Firestarter, was famously emancipated from her parents at age 14 after struggling with substance abuse.
Drew Barrymore
This engagement, the single largest loss of life in a single day by the British Army, totaling around 60,000, on July 1, 1916.
Battle of the Somme
Nelson’s triumph over the Spanish and French in 1805.
Battle of Trafalgar
This President’s torturous, botched series of surgeries following an assassination attempt was marked by infection, the invention of air conditioning, and culminated in the lesson tools should be sterilized
James Garfield
Stegner, while teaching at Berkeley, was granted this title by the literary world, the Dean of . . .
Western Literature
Star of The Parent Trap and Mean Girls, became a tabloid figure for DUI, drug possession, and other arrests.
Lindsay Lohan
In 1942, Everall Percival surrender 80,000 troops garrisoned at this Pacific Port to the Japanese.
Singapore
This battle ended Napoleon’s Continental spree.
Battle of Waterloo
This early vaccine pioneer deliberately infected a child with cowpox to test his smallpox immunity thesis.
Edward Jenner
This, Stegner’s 1943 novel, is considered his most autobiographical, and hollows the life of a family in the first half of the twentieth century as it migrates through Illinois, Dakota, Washington, Saskatchewan, and Utah.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
In the 1990s, after struggles with heroin and meth, this star of Terminator 2 was arrested numerous times for abuse and party to a lengthy legal battle over an illegitimate child.
Edward Furlong
This attempt to capture Istanbul resulted in 300,000 casualties before being abandoned by the Empire.
Gallipoli
Off the coast of Denmark, 1916, resulting in the total destruction of the German Navy.
Battle of Jutland
This Japanese unit carried out biological weapon experimentation on Chinese civilians and Russian prisoners of war. There were no documented survivors of the estimated two-to-three-hundred-thousand test subjects.
Unit 731
Stegner’s final work, published in 1987, presents an intimate portrait of the relationship between two aging couples, received commercial success and critical praise.
Crossing to Safety
This young Skywalker quit acting after relentless public scrutiny, and was later arrested after a highspeed chase, before being institutionalized
Jake Lloyd
Immediately preceding the triumph of Rourke’s Drift, this 1879 battle was the only major victory of the Zulu over British contingents.
Isandlwana
This 1951 battle in Korea saw the Gloucestershire Regiment hold out for three days against a Chinese force several degrees larger.
Battle of the River Imjin
Portugal’s first Nobel laureate, Antonio Egas Moniz, pioneered this invasive, ice pick brain surgery
Lobotomy
Stegner’s works on Utah, including The Gathering of Zion, are still some of the most authoritative histories of this people
The Latter-day Saints
After starring on the titular Amanada Show, this actress struggled with multiple narcotics, leading to several arrests, and a conservatorship.
Amanda Bynes
The sinking of this battleship by the Japanese in 1941 marked the symbolic end of British naval domination in the Pacific.
HMS Prince of Wales
The 1982 capture of this archipelago was accomplished without the loss of any large ships.
The Falklands
This ancient medical practice involved drilling holes into the skull to release demons
Trepanation