Stewart, George R., 1895-1980

found: His A bibl. of the writings of Bret Harte in the magazines and newspapers of Calif., 1857-1871, 1933:t.p. (George R. Stewart, Jr.)

found: His Names on the land, 1982:CIP t.p. (George R. Stewart) galley (d. 8/22/80)

found: Wikipedia, Dec. 17, 2012 :George R. Stewart article (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. Born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1917, an MA from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University in 1922. He accepted a position in the English department at Berkeley in 1923. Stewart was a founding member of the American Name Society in 1956-57, and he once served as an expert witness in a murder trial as a specialist in family names. His scholarly works on the poetic meter of ballads (published under the name George R. Stewart, Jr.), beginning with his 1922 Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia, remain important in their field. He is best known for his only science fiction novel Earth Abides.)