After one year at the University of Alabama, JOHN CRAIG STEWART sampled a wide variety of jobs. The war pulled him out of mercantile life; he served in the Army for four years, three of them in the Pacific as Supply Officer for an Air Corps fighter group. After the war he returned to college to study creative writing. His first stories have been written under Professor Hudson Strode at the University of Alabama,and when he has taken his degree he plans to retire to a fifty-acre farm which he owns near Montgomery and write.