Jean Craighead George

Jean Craighead was born in 1919 in Washington, D.C., into a family of naturalists. Her parents and her twin brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who became well-known wildlife scientists, all studied nature; on weekends the family camped, climbed trees to study owls, and gathered wild plants to eat. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1940 with degrees in English and science and in the 1940s was a reporter for The Washington Post and a member of the White House press corps. Her first novels were written with her husband, John George, and illustrated by her. Her novel My Side of the Mountain (1959), about a boy named Sam Gribley who runs away to live in the Catskill Mountains and trains a falcon, was a Newbery Honor Book. Julie of the Wolves (1972), inspired by a summer studying wolves in Barrow, Alaska, tells of a girl who survives on the Arctic tundra with the help of a wolf pack, and it won the Newbery Medal. In all she wrote more than one hundred books, mostly about animals and nature. She died in 2012.

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