Jean Craighead George

Jean Craighead George was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, often focused on the environment and the natural world. Her best-known titles are Julie of the Wolves, which won the Newbery Medal, and My Side of the Mountain, which earned a Newbery Honor. Born in 1919, she spent much of her childhood camping and foraging with naturalist relatives, and alongside her fiction she wrote guides to cooking with wild foods. George died in 2012.