What's Her Name?

[stoutfellow]

George R. Stewart wrote one of the finest post-apocalyptic novels, Earth Abides. It was his only work of science fiction, and it holds up very well, even after seventy-plus years. (Stephen King identifies it as one of the inspirations for his The Stand.) He also wrote a number of other works, fiction and nonfiction. One of the former was Storm, which had as protagonist a giant hurricane, which he dubbed Maria.

I did not know this: it was that novel which prompted the National Weather Service to begin naming hurricanes, and it also inspired the Lerner and Loewe song "They Call the Wind Maria", from Paint Your Wagon.

I've had Earth Abides in my library for a long time, but I think I'm going to scout around for some of his other works.