Jean Craighead George
Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain. Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world. Beside children's fiction, she wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and one autobiography published 30 years before her death, Journey Inward.
Jean Carolyn Craighead George | |
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Craighead George in Barrow, Alaska, 1994 | |
| Born | July 2, 1919 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | May 15, 2012 (aged 92) Valhalla, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Awards | Newbery Medal 1973 |
For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer she was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1964.
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