Jean Craighead George

Jean Carolyn Craighead George was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medalwinning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runnerup My Side of the Mountain. Common themes in Georges works are the environment and the natural world. Beside childrens fiction, she wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and one autobiography publishedyears before her death, Journey Inward.

Jean Carolyn Craighead was born in 1919, in Washington DC, and raised in a family of naturalists. Her father, mother, brothers Frank and John, aunts, and uncles were students of nature. On weekends they camped in the woods near Washington, climbed trees to study owls, gathered edible plants, and made fish hooks from twigs. Her first pet was a turkey vulture. George centered her life around writing and nature.

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