George R. Stewart

Novelist, Author

1895 – 1980

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Who was George R. Stewart?

George Rippey Stewart 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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Born
May 31, 1895
Sewickley
Also known as
  • George Rippey Stewart
  • George Stewart
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University
  • Princeton University
  • University of California, Berkeley
Lived in
  • Pennsylvania
Died
Aug 22, 1980

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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