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Jean Craighead George
American writer ()
Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, &#; May 15, ) 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.[1] Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world.
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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 [3]
Biography
Jean Carolyn Craighead was born on July 2, , in Washington DC. She was raised in a family of naturalists.[4] Her mother, father (Frank Craighead Sr.), brothers (Frank and John), aunts, and uncles were students of nature.
On weekends they camped in the woods near Washington, cl