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Stewart</b></font><p><b>AKA</b> George Rippey Stewart, Jr.<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/669/000106351/" class=proflink>31-May</a>-<a href="/lists/894/000105579/" class=proflink>1895</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/000/000104685/" class=proflink>Sewickley, PA</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/121/000106800/" class=proflink>22-Aug</a>-<a href="/lists/490/000106172/" class=proflink>1980</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> <a href="/geo/695/000069488/" class=proflink>San Francisco, CA</a><br><b>Cause of death:</b> unspecified<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> Author<p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> <i>Earth Abides</i><p><b>Military service:</b> US Army (1917-19)<p><b>Father:</b> George Rippey Stewart<br><b>Mother:</b> Ella May Wilson<br><b>Wife:</b> Theodosia Burton (m. 1924, one daughter, one son)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Jane (b. 27-Sep-1925)<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/549/000068345/">AB, Princeton University (1917)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/470/000068266/">MA, University of California at Berkeley (1920)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/477/000068273/">PhD English Literature, Columbia University (1922)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/470/000068266/">English, University of California at Berkeley (1924-62)</a><br><p> <u>American Name Society</u> <br> <a href="/honors/188/000045053/">Fulbright</a> <br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Bret Harte: Argonaut and Exile</i> (<tt>1931</tt>)<br><i>Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party</i> (<tt>1936</tt>)<br><i>John Phoenix</i> (<tt>1937</tt>)<br><i>East of Giants</i> (<tt>1939</tt>)<br><i>Doctor's Oral</i> (<tt>1939</tt>)<br><i>Take your Bible in One Hand: The Life of William Henry Thomes</i> (<tt>1939</tt>)<br><i>Storm</i> (<tt>1941</tt>)<br><i>Names on the Land</i> (<tt>1945</tt>)<br><i>Man: An Autobiography</i> (<tt>1946</tt>)<br><i>Fire</i> (<tt>1948</tt>)<br><i>Earth Abides</i> (<tt>1949</tt>)<br><i>Sheep Rock</i> (<tt>1951</tt>)<br><i>U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America</i> (<tt>1953</tt>)<br><i>American Ways of Life</i> (<tt>1954</tt>)<br><i>To California by Covered Wagon</i> (<tt>1954</tt>)<br><i>The Years of the City</i> (<tt>1955</tt>)<br><i>N.A. 1: The North-South Continental Highway</i> (<tt>1957</tt>)<br><i>Pickett's Charge</i> (<tt>1959</tt>)<br><i>The California Trail</i> (<tt>1962</tt>)<br><i>Committee of Vigilance</i> (<tt>1964</tt>)<br><i>Good Lives</i> (<tt>1967</tt>)<br><i>Not So Rich as You Think</i> (<tt>1968</tt>)<br><i>A Concise Dictionary of American Place-Names</i> (<tt>1970</tt>)<br><i>Names on the Globe</i> (<tt>1975</tt>)<br><i>American Given Names</i> (<tt>1979</tt>)<br><p> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=173752" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>