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   1973. Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain. [1] Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world.

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   About Jean Craighead George - Jean Craighead George. Jean was born on July 2, 1919 in Washington, DC. She attended the Alice Deal Middle School and the Woodrow Wilson High School. Looking back at her papers she was always involved in the Year book, dance, art and theater. She graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Science and ...

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   • Jean Craighead George, a children’s author widely regarded as one of the premier American nature writers for young readers, died May 15 at a hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y. She was 92.

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   • Jean Craighead George (1919-2012) Jean Craighead George was born into a family of naturalists. Her father, mother, brothers, aunts and uncles were students of nature. On weekends her father took Jean and her twin brothers, Frank and John, up along the Potomac River near their Washington, D.C. home.

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   • Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain. Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world.

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5. www.nytimes.com › 2012/05/17 › booksJean Craighead George, Children’s Author, Dies at 92

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   May 17, 2012 · May 16, 2012. Jean Craighead George, a Newbery Award-winning writer for young people whose books brought the natural world from the Catskill Mountains to the Alaskan tundra to wild, luminous life ...

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   Jean Craighead George (1919-2012) Jean Craighead George was born into a family of naturalists. Her father, mother, brothers, aunts and uncles were students of nature. On weekends her father took Jean and her twin brothers, Frank and John, up along the Potomac River near their Washington, D.C. home. They camped, climbed cliffs to study peregrine ...

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   May 27, 2012 · George, who was a leading writer of novels about nature for young readers, died of congestive heart failure May 15 at a hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y., said her daughter, Twig George. She was 92.

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   May 27, 2012 · Valerie J. Nelson is a former deputy Op-Ed editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has been a reporter and editor at the newspaper for 25 years. Jean Craighead George was a leading writer of novels ...

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    May 22, 2012 · Jean Craighead George, a children’s author widely regarded as one of the premiercq premier not premiere American nature writers for young readers, died May 15 at a hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.