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Jean Craighead George

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George, Jean Craighead
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Date of birth
1919-07-02
Place of birth
United States
Date of death
2012-05-15
Place of death
United States

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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.

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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Goodreads Author ID
23509
ISNI
0000 0001 2024 8968
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL19009A
VIAF
44418732
Wikidata ID
Q275188

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