Another, Storm, is the book which popularized the practice of naming storms.
The popularity and influence of his works is widespread: One of his works, Earth Abides, has been in print for 60 years and is now available in twenty languages.
He was an exceptional scholar-author, described by his friend Joseph Henry Jackson as a “poet and precisionist.” During his long career, Stewart composed some of the most remarkable works of the 20th century, inventing several types of books along the way - road-geography book, micro-history, micro-novel, place-name history, ecological history, and the ecological novel. He spent a lifetime wandering the American landscape, wondering about its geography and history, and writing books about it. George Rippey Stewart was a Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. Stewart, best-selling novelist, historian, inventor of book-types, and author of Earth Abides. These pages are dedicated to the work of George R.
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