George Stade (November 25, 1933 - February 26, 2019) was an American literary scholar, critic, novelist and professor at Columbia University.
Kurt Stade, a hairdresser from Germany accompanied them until the World War II drove them back to the United States in 1939.
He then went to the City College of New York for a year, but transferred to St. Lawrence University at the urging of his mother, who was concerned about the company he was keeping.
Stade's literary interests included not only James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Samuel Beckett, but also Dashiell Hammett, Bram Stoker, Stephen King and practitioners of other genres held in low esteem by academics.
Sex and Violence: A Love Story (2005), Stade's second novel, concerned a string of sexually motivated murders happening within a university.