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George R. Stewart (1895-1980) was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton. He received his PhD in English literature from Columbia in 1922 and joined the English faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1924. He was a sociologist, toponymist, and founding member of the American Name Society, and the author of more than twenty books, including the highly successful novel Earth Abides and several works of American history.In addition to Storm, NYRB Classics publishes his study of American place names, Names on the Land. Nathaniel Richis the author of Second Nature;Losing Earth, a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Awardand a winner of awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physicists; and the novelsKing Zeno,Odds Against Tomorrow, andThe Mayor's Tongue.
The storm itself . . . becomes absorbing as few human characters, in fiction, ever are. It is a splendid job of research and design. -Time
