About Jim Stewart

Jim Stewart (1942-2018) grew up on a farm in Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree in history at Michigan State University, master’s degrees in history and librarianship at Western Michigan University, and completed course work toward a PhD in American History at the University of Illinois Chicago. He taught history and English before managing a foreign-and-art-film theater in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He spent the late 1970s in San Francisco where he lived South of Market. There he practiced photography, founded Keyhole Studios, and was much published in Drummer magazine. He had five shows and various group shows in the early SoMa galleries of the late 1970s. In 2010, his work was represented at SF Camerawork gallery in “An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area Part 2: The Future Lasts Forever.” He returned to the Great Lakes area where he was head of the History Department at the Chicago Public Library. He now lives with his partner of over twenty-five years on Michigan’s west shore. He is currently working on a mystery novel.