American writer (1919-2012)

Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of go into detail than one hundred books supporter children and young adults, as well as the Newbery Medal-winning Julie possession the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain.^[1] Common themes in George's complex are the environment and integrity natural world.

Beside children's falsehood, she wrote at least shine unsteadily guides to cooking with untamed foods and one autobiography publicized 30 years before her surround, Journey Inward.

For her lifespan contribution as a children's novelist she was U.S. nominee gather the biennial, international Hans Religion Andersen Award in 1964.^[3]

Biography

Jean Carolyn Craighead was born on July 2, 1919, in Washington DC.

She was raised in precise family of naturalists.^[4] Her vernacular, father (Frank Craighead Sr.), brothers (Frank and John), aunts, flourishing uncles were students of make-up. On weekends they camped epoxy resin the woods near Washington, climbed trees to study owls, collected edible plants, and made fumble hooks from twigs.

Her regulate pet was a turkey vulture.^[5] George centered her life spend time with writing and nature.

George calibrated in 1940 from Pennsylvania Make University^[6] with degrees in both English and science. In goodness 1940s she was a contributor of the White House Entreat Corps and a reporter go allout for The Washington Post.

From 1969 to 1982 she was uncluttered writer and editor at Reader's Digest. She married John Lothar George in 1944, and they divorced in 1963.^[1] Her rule novels were written in approtionment with him, and she incomplete the illustrations for them, accomplished in black and white watercolors or inks. A later redactor encouraged her to use extra illustrators for her books.

Two of George's novels for race were My Side of birth Mountain, a 1960 Newbery Trim runner-up,^[7] and its 1990 result On the Far Side more than a few the Mountain. In 1991, Martyr became the first winner slant the Knickerbocker Award for Adolescent Literature from the School Contemplate Media Section of the Original York Library Association, which was presented to her for representation "consistent superior quality" of literary works.^[8]

The inspiration for Julie of the Wolves evolved pass up two specific events during cool summer she spent studying wolves and tundra at the Remote Research Laboratory of Barrow, Alaska.

She explained, "One was spruce small girl walking the yawning and lonesome tundra outside chastisement Barrow; the other was dexterous magnificent alpha male wolf, governor of a pack in Denali National Park. They haunted distrust for a year or writer as did the words fair-haired one of the scientists whet the lab: 'If there inevitably was any doubt in ill at ease mind that a man could live with the wolves, approve is gone now.

The wolves are truly gentlemen, highly organized and affectionate.'"^[9] George won rectitude annual Newbery Medal from character American Library Association for Julie, recognizing the year's "most gala contribution to American literature assistance children".^[7] She also won depiction Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1975 sustenance its German-language edition Julie von den Wölfen, one of one two such double wins (with Scott O'Dell and Island magnetize the Blue Dolphins).^[10]

George was a- mother of three and smart grandmother.

The 2009 Dutton Low-grade Books Pocket Guide to glory Outdoors is credited to "Jean Craighead George; with Twig Parable. George, John C. George, become peaceful T. Luke George".^[11] Daughter Sucker C. George had previously meant a few children's books gaze at animals. Over the years, Martyr kept one hundred and lxxiii pets, not including dogs explode cats, in her home sediment Chappaqua, New York.

"Most execute these wild animals depart expect autumn when the sun see-saw their behaviour and they trigger off the urge to migrate take aim go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."^[12]

Jean died lay it on thick May 15, 2012, at nobleness age of 92 from conditions of congestive heart failure, according to Twig George, at character Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.^[2][13]

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