George R. Stewart was an American historian, toponymist, geographer, author, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania in 1895, and he died in San Francisco, California in 1980.
His 1959 book, Pickett's Charge, a detailed history of the final attack at the Battle of Gettysburg, was termed "essential for an understanding of the Battle of Gettysburg". His 1949 post-apocalyptic novel Earth Abides won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951.
