Jean Craighead George

Sarah Fischer (Messiah College)

Ed. by Dainy Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 2 Jul 1919
Died 15 May 2012
Activity c. 1948-2012

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

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Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer
Illustrator

Resources

Craighead George's Works

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American children’s nature writer Jean Craighead George (1919-2012) was the author of over one hundred books for children, including the Newbery Medal-winning

Julie of the Wolves

(1973) and the Newbery Honor Book,

My Side of the Mountain

(1959).

A Childhood Intertwined with the Natural World

A Childhood Intertwined with the Natural World

Jean was born Jean Carolyn Craighead on 2 July 1919, to Carolyn Johnson Craighead, a scientific assistant at the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C., and Frank Cooper Craighead, a naturalist and entomologist for the federal government. From an early age, Jean was immersed in the workings of the natural world. Spending most of the year living in the Chevy Chase suburb of Washington, D.C., Jean and her older twin brothers, John and Frank Jr. (born

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Citation: Fischer, Sarah. "Jean Craighead George". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 August 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15186, accessed 24 November 2024.]