George R. Stewart's books about U.S. highways were based on his cross-country drives in 1924, 1949 and 1950.

George Rippey Stewart (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley (until 1962). Image File history File linksMetadata Grstewart. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Grstewart. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Toponymy is the taxonomic study of place names, their origins and their meanings. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...

Born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Stewart was educated at Princeton University, the University of California, and Columbia University. Sewickley is a borough located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States of America. ... The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...

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 is the obvious inspiration for Stephen King's The Stand. ^{[citation needed]} Earth Abides was published in 1949 by Berkeley English Professor George R. Stewart. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... The International Fantasy Awards were given out in 1951--1955 and in 1957. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Escape was radios leading series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. ...

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 Disneyland. This article is about the year. ... The National Weather Service (NWS) is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States government. ... Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American Broadway lyricist and librettist. ... Frederic Loewe, an Austrian-American composer (June 10, 1901 - February 14, 1988) worked with lyricist Alan J. Lerner in musical theater. ... Paint Your Wagon is a 1951 Broadway musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California. ...

Stewart was a founding member of the American Name Society in 1956–1957, and he once served as an expert witness in a murder trial as a specialist in family names. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bibliography

• Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party (1936)
• Doctor's Oral (1939)
• Storm (1941)
• Names on the Land (1945), a study on the etymology of American place-names
• Man, An Autobiography (1946)
• Fire (1948)
• Earth Abides (1949)
• U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America (1953)
• American Ways of Life (1954)
• The Years of the City (1955)
• N.A. 1 (1957)
• Pickett's Charge (1959)
• The California Trail (1962)
• Not So Rich as You Think (1968)
• A Concise Dictionary of American Place-Names (1970)
• Names on the Globe (1975)

Not to be confused with Entomology, the study of insects. ... Earth Abides was published in 1949 by Berkeley English Professor George R. Stewart. ...

References

• "George R. Stewart, toponymist," Names, Volume 24, 1976, pp. 77-85.

Listen to

• Escape: "Earth Abides," part one (11/05/50)
• Escape: "Earth Abides," part two (11/12/50)

External links

• American Name Society biography of Stewart by William Bright
• Donald M. Scott: "George R. Stewart: The Man Who Named the Wind"