George R. Stewart

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George Rippey Stewart (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

His 1959 book, Pickett's Charge, a detailed history of the final attack at Gettysburg, was called "essential for an understanding of the Battle of Gettysburg".

His 1949 post-apocalyptic novel Earth Abides won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951.

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Early life and university career

George Rippey Stewart, Jr., a native of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, was the son of engineer George Rippey Stewart Sr. (died 1937), who invented gasworks and electric railways and later became a citrus "rancher" in Southern California and Ella Wilson Stewart (died 1937). Stewart, the younger of the three siblings, received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1917, an MA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University in 1922. In 1923, he accepted a Berkeley English department job. The "Jr" was stripped from his name after his father's death.

Stewart served as a founding member of the American Name Society in 1956-57. He was once employed as an expert witness in a murder trial as a family name specialist. Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (1945), reprinted in New York Review Books, 2008.) He wrote three other books on names: A Concise Dictionary of American Place-Names (1970), Names on the Globe (1975), and American Given Names (1979). His academic works on ballads' poetic meter (published under the name George R. Stewart, Jr.), which began with his 1922 Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia, are still relevant in this field.

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