George R. Stewart

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George Rippey Stewart (born May 31, 1895 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania , † August 22, 1980 ) was an American writer , linguist and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

George R. Stewart was born on May 31, 1895, the son of railroad engineer George Rippey and his wife Ella Wilson Stewart. He took part in the First World War, studied at Princeton University , the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University . In 1923 Stewart became Professor of English at UC, Berkeley, and was also a visiting professor in Athens for some time. In 1962 he retired after teaching for twenty years.

Stewart was married to the daughter of the President of the University of Michigan, Theodosia Burton.

Life without end

George R. Stewart was best known in Germany through the science fiction novel Life Without End ( Earth Abides ), which has meanwhile been translated into 27 languages. The book won the International Fantasy Award in 1951 . An epidemic destroys almost all of humanity; the few survivors join together to form a tribe that gradually sinks to stone age levels. Earth Abides later inspired Stephen King to write his novel The Stand . But a lot of motifs from Stewart's novel is also found in the end-time Roman Black mirror of Arno Schmidt ; the novel also contains a fictional letter from Schmidt to Stewart about his work Man, An Autobiography .

bibliography

Novels
  • East of the Giants (1939)
    • English: In the shadow of the golden mountains. Scientia, Zurich 1943. Also: GB Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1953.
  • Doctor's Oral (1939)
  • Storm (1942)
    • German: Sturm. Verlag des Druckhaus Tempelhof, Berlin 1950.
  • Earth Abides (1950)
    • German: life without end. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1952. Also: Heyne SF # 3071/3072, 1966. Revised new edition: Heyne, 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-31436-8 .
  • Fire (1951)
    • English: fire: novel of an element. List, Munich 1952.
  • Sheep Rock (1951)
  • The Years of the City (1955)
Non-fiction
  • The Technique of English Verse (1930)
  • Bret Harte, Argonaut and Exile (1931)
  • A Bibliography of the Writings of Bret Harte in the Magazines and Newspapers of California 1857–1871 (1933)
  • Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party (1960)
  • English Composition (1936)
  • John Phoenix, Esq. (1937)
  • Take your Bible in One Hand: The Life of William Henry Thornes (1939)
  • Names on the Land (1967)
  • Man: An Autobiography (1948)
  • The Year of the Oath: The Fight for Academic Freedom at the University of California, with others (1950)
  • US 40: Cross Section of the United States of America (1953)
    • German: US 40. Across the United States of North America. Zettner, Würzburg & Vienna 1957.
  • American Ways of Life (1954)
  • To California by Covered Wagon (1987, youth book, reissued as Pioneers Go West , 198)
  • NA 1: The North-South Continental Highway (1957)
  • Pickett's Charge (1959)
  • Donner Pass and Those Who Crossed It (1960)
  • The California Trail (1964)
  • Committee of Vigilance: Revolution in San Francisco 1851 (1964)
  • This California (1965, with photographs by Michael Bry)
  • Good Lives (1967)
  • The Department of English of the University of California on the Berkeley Campus (1968)
  • Not So Rich as You Think (1968)
  • American Place-Names: a concise and selective dictionary for the continental United States of America (1970)
  • Names on the Globe (1975)
  • American Given Names: Their Origin and History in the Context of the English Language (1979)

literature

Biographies
  • John Caldwell: George R. Stewart. Boise State University, Boise, Idaho 1981, ISBN 0-88430-070-6 .
  • Donald Scott: The Life and Truth of George R. Stewart: A Literary Biography of the Author of Earth Abides. McFarland, Jefferson 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-6799-0 .
Lexicons

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who's Who Along Route 40 ( Memento of October 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Hans Joachim Alpers : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature, 2 Bde., Munich (Wilhelm Heyne Verlag) 1980. ISBN 3-453-01063-9 , ISBN 3-453-010647
personal data
SURNAME Stewart, George R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stewart, George Rippey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, linguist and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Sewickley, Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1980