# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-craighead-george
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:28:41.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-craighead-george"
name: "Jean Craighead George"
slug: "jean-craighead-george"
description: "Jean Carolyn Craighead George 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 Honor My Side of the Mountain. Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world. Beside children's fiction, she wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and one autobiography published 30 years before her death, Journey Inward."
tagline: "American novelist and nature writer (1919–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Craighead_George%2C_Barrow%2C_AK%2C_1994.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-07-02"
deathDate: "2012-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.36
  momentum:             3.586206896551725
  historical:           9.736758666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jean Craighead George"
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    title: "Jean Craighead George"
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    title: "Jean Craighead George"
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    title: "Jean Craighead George"
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    title: "Jean Craighead George"
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    title: "Ջին Քրեյգհեդ Ջորջ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump