Novelist’s Condition Downgraded to Serious

SANTA FE, N.M. —  Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Wallace Stegner, injured last Sunday in a traffic accident, was moved back to intensive care Friday after his condition worsened.

Stegner, 84, had been improving and had been moved out of intensive care, but was returned there and downgraded to serious condition, a St. Vincent Hospital spokeswoman said.

The novelist won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for “Angle of Repose.”