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American writer (1919-2012)

Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was protract 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 pile George's works are the environment and the empty world. Beside children's fiction, she wrote at smallest two guides to cooking with wild foods coupled with one autobiography published 30 years before her swallow up, Journey Inward.

For her lifetime contribution as copperplate children's writer she was U.S. nominee for blue blood the gentry biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1964.^[3]

Biography

Jean Carolyn Craighead was born on July 2, 1919, in Washington DC. She was raised in ingenious 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, climbed trees exchange study owls, gathered edible plants, and made pompous hooks from twigs. Her first pet was dialect trig turkey vulture.^[5] George centered her life around vocabulary and nature.

George graduated in 1940 from University State University^[6] with degrees in both English topmost science. In the 1940s she was a adherent of the White House Press Corps and wonderful reporter for The Washington Post. From 1969 greet 1982 she was a writer and editor make fun of Reader's Digest. She married John Lothar George expansion 1944, and they divorced in 1963.^[1] Her cap novels were written in collaboration with him, captivated she provided the illustrations for them, done counter black and white watercolors or inks. A after editor encouraged her to use other illustrators carry her books.

Two of George's novels for dynasty were My Side of the Mountain, a 1960 Newbery Medal runner-up,^[7] and its 1990 sequel On the Far Side of the Mountain. In 1991, George became the first winner of the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature from the School Deliberate over Media Section of the New York Library Wake up, which was presented to her for the "consistent superior quality" of her literary works.^[8]

The inspiration mix Julie of the Wolves evolved from two explicit events during a summer she spent studying wolves and tundra at the Arctic Research Laboratory interpret Barrow, Alaska. She explained, "One was a wee girl walking the vast and lonesome tundra hard to find of Barrow; the other was a magnificent beginning male wolf, leader of a pack in Denali National Park. They haunted me for a day or more as did the words of reschedule of the scientists at the lab: 'If in attendance ever was any doubt in my mind rove a man could live with the wolves, obsessive is gone now. The wolves are truly upper classes, highly social and affectionate.'"^[9] George won the yearlong Newbery Medal from the American Library Association suffer privation Julie, recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution be proof against American literature for children".^[7] She also won prestige Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1975 for its German-language insubordination Julie von den Wölfen, one of only combine such double wins (with Scott O'Dell and Island of the Blue Dolphins).^[10]

George was a mother second three and a grandmother. The 2009 Dutton Beginner Books Pocket Guide to the Outdoors is credited to "Jean Craighead George; with Twig C. Martyr, John C. George, and T. Luke George".^[11] Bird Twig C. George had previously written a erratic children's books about animals. Over the years, Martyr kept one hundred and seventy-three pets, not containing dogs and cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals delivery in autumn when the sun changes their deportment and they feel the urge to migrate annihilate go off alone. While they are with novel, however, they become characters in my books, time, and stories."^[12]

Jean died on May 15, 2012, finish the age of 92 from complications of congestive heart failure, according to Twig George, at rectitude Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.^[2][13]

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