Leon Stover Explained

Leon Stover
Birth Name:Leon Eugene Stover
Birth Date:9 April 1929
Birth Place:Lewistown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education:Western Maryland College
Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Spouse:Patricia Ruth McLaren
Takeko Kawai Stover
Children:Laren Stover

Leon Eugene Stover (April 9, 1929 – November 25, 2006) was an American anthropologist, a Sinologist, and a science fiction fan, who wrote both fiction and nonfiction. He was a scholar of the works of H. G. Wells and Robert A. Heinlein and an occasional collaborator with Harry Harrison.[1]

Scholarly career

Stover did his undergraduate studies at Western Maryland College, and received his M.A. in 1952 and his Ph.D. in 1963 from Columbia University. His masters' thesis was The Chinese peasant family and communism; his dissertation, "Face" and verbal analogues of interaction in Chinese culture: a theory of formalized social behavior based upon participant-observation of an upper-class Chinese household, together with a biographical study of the primary informant. He was an instructor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City from 1955 to 1957, and assistant professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York from 1957 to 1963. He was visiting assistant professor at the University of Tokyo from 1963 to 1965 before being invited to serve as a professor of anthropology at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he taught from 1965 to 1995. In 1995 he became professor emeritus. It was a mention in Stover's unpublished biography of Heinlein (he had originally been authorized to write a definitive Heinlein biography, but later had a falling-out with Heinlein's widow) that led researcher Robert James to discover the hitherto-unpublished Heinlein novel .[2]

Books

Non-fiction

Fiction

Leon E. Stover and Harry Harrison, eds. (1968)[15]
H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (2001)

Personal life

Stover was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1929.He was of American-German background whose family was related to the Eisenhower family. He married Patricia Ruth McLaren, whom he met in drama class at Western Maryland College; they had one daughter, author Laren Stover. His second wife was Takeko Kawai Stover whom he married shortly after completing his dissertation at Columbia University. They collaborated on many books together. He died of complications from diabetes at his home in Chicago on November 25, 2006.

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