Jean Fritz

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Jean Guttery Fritz, born November 16, 1915, is an American children's author and biographer.

[edit] Life

Jean Guttery was born to American missionaries in Hankow, China, where she lived for the next thirteen years, where, to ease the loneliness of being an only child, kept a journal. She came to the United States and in 1937 graduated from Wheaton College. In 1941 she married Michael Fritz. She has two children, David and Andrea. She currently lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York..

[edit] Works

Fritz's first book Bunny Hopwell's First Spring was published in 1954. She often wrote Westerns or stories of old America because her father would tell her stories of American heroes as she was growing up. Eventually she published her autobiography, Homesick, My Own Story in 1982 and won the Newbery Honor citation the following year. Her hard work for children earned her the 1986 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal.