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Newberry winner, Jean Craighead George, has died

by sernabad

For the second time in a week, children's literature has lost a beloved author. Jean Craighead George died yesterday in Valhalla, NY.

Ms. George, who published her first book, Vulpes, the Red Fox, in 1949, won the Newbery Medal for her classic story, Julie of the Wolves, 1972. In this perennial favorite, young Julie runs away from her Alaskan home and becomes lost on the North Slope where she is rescued and raised by a pack of wolves.

Thirteen years earlier, Ms. George was a Newbery Honor winner for My Side of the Mountain. In this adventure tale, 12-year-old Gribley, another runaway, escapes to the Catskills where he befriends a weasel and a peregrine falcon.

She began her writing career as a journalist, working as a reporter for the Washington Post and as one of the first women White House Press Corps reporters.

Ms. George, who was 92, died of complications from a stroke.

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