Jean Craighead George (1919–2012)
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Jean Craighead George was born on July 2, 1919 in Washington, D.C. She received degrees in English and science from Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a reporter for the International News Service. In the 1940s she was a member of the White House press corps for The Washington näytä lisää Post. During her lifetime, she wrote over 100 novels including My Side of the Mountain, which was a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves, which won the Newbery Medal, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack. She also wrote two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography entitled Journey Inward. In 1991, she became the first winner of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature. She died on May 15, 2012 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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- Virallinen nimi
- George, Jean Carolyn Craighead
- Syntymäaika
- 1919-07-02
- Kuolinaika
- 2012-05-15
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Valhalla, New York, USA
- Kuolinsyy
- congestive heart failure
- Asuinpaikat
- Chappaqua, New York, USA
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA - Koulutus
- Pennsylvania State University (BA|1941)
- Ammatit
- journalist
author
editor
children's book author - Suhteet
- George, Twig C. (daughter)
George, John L. (spouse)
George, Craig (son) - Organisaatiot
- Washington Post
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Newbery Honor Medal 1960
Newbery Medal 1973
Regina Medal (2003)
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