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George R. Stewart

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born

May 31, 1895 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, The United States

died

August 22, 1980

gender

male

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Outdoors & Nature

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George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his only science fiction novel Earth Abides (1949), a post-apocalyptic novel, for which he won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was dramatized on radio's Escape and inspired Stephen King's The Stand .

His 1941 novel Storm , featuring as its protagonist a Pacific storm called Maria, prompted the National Weather Service to use personal names to designate storms and inspired Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to write the song "They Call the Wind Maria" for their 1951 musical "Paint Your Wagon." Storm was dramatized as "A Storm Called Maria" on a 1959 episode of ABC's Disneyl...more

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Books by George R. Stewart

Average rating: 3.92 · 5,634 ratings · 763 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Earth Abides 3.91 avg rating — 4,931 ratings — published 1949 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Ordeal by Hunger: the Story of the Donner Party 4.02 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 1936 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States by George R. Stewart, Matt Weiland (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1945 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pickett's Charge 3.94 avg rating — 49 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Storm by George R. Stewart, Ernest Callenbach (Foreword by) 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1941 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Fire by George R. Stewart, Ferol Egan (Foreword) 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The California Trail: An Epic with Many Heroes 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Pioneers Go West (Landmark Books) 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1954 — 3 editions	My rating:
	American Place-names: A Concise & Selective Dictionary for the Continental United States of America 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions	My rating:
	American Given Names: Their Origin & History in the Context of the English Language 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by George R. Stewart

“In that world, those with seeing eyes could only blunder about, but the blind man would be at home, and now instead of being the one who was guided by others, he might be one the one to whom the others clung for guidance.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

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“It is a strange thing," he thought, "to be an old god. They worship you, and yet they mistreat you. If you do not want to do what they wish, they make you. It is not fair.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

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“Men have been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise"'- old British man in Earth Abides”
― George R. Stewart

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