Discussion in detail of writing Bret Harte, Ordeal by Hunger, East of the Giants, Doctor's Orals, Storm, Fire, Names on the Land, and other works; study at Princeton, Berkeley, and Columbia; reviewers, fans, and agents; "mapping out a book"; plays and unfinished work; H. L. Davis, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost; marriage to Theodosia Burton; UC Berkeley: the Faculty Club, loyalty oath ( Year of the Oath), English department. With a supplementary transcribed conversation with CHARLES L. CAMP (1893-1975), Professor of Paleontology, Emeritus, on Western history, The Bancroft Library, the Drake Plate. Appended essays "On Awarding Honors" and "On Dishonesty, Seeming and Real," by Stewart.
Note
Stewart, George R. "George R. Stewart: A Little of Myself." Interview by Suzanne Riess in 1971. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1972. Interview date(s) 1971
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