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Profile of George Stewart
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George Stewart |
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10th May 1915 |
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Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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George Rippey Stewart (May 31, 1895‑1980) was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley (until 1962). Born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Stewart was educated at Princeton University, the University of California, and Columbia University.
Nowadays, he is most famous for his only science fiction novel Earth Abides (1949), a post-apocalyptic novel, for which he won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951. His 1941 novel Storm, featuring as its protagonist a Pacific storm called "Maria," inspired the National Weather Service to use personal names to designate storms. Stewart was president of the American Place-Name Society from 1956 to 1957; he once served as an expert witness in a murder trial as a specialist in family names.
Stewart was a very productive writer. His books include:
- Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party (1936)
- Storm (1941)
- Names on the Land (1945), a study on the etymology of American place-names
- Man, An Autobiography (1946)
- Fire (1948)
- Earth Abides (1949)
- U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America (1953)
- American Ways of Life (1954)
- Pickett's Charge (1959)
- The California Trail (1962)
- Not So Rich as You Think (1968)
- Names on the Globe (1975)
External sources
- "George R. Stewart, toponymist," Names, Volume 24, 1976, pp. 77-85.
- A short biography of George R. Stewart by the American Name Society
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