- George R. Stewart (Wikipedia)
George Rippey Stewart Jr. (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His 1959 book, Pickett’s Charge, a detailed history of the final attack at Gettysburg, was called “essential for an understanding of the Battle of Gettysburg”. His 1949 post-apocalyptic novel Earth Abides won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951.