Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Jean Craighead George
![Jean Craighead George](/apics/jean-craighead-george.jpg)
Born: July 2, 1919
Died: May 15, 2012 (aged 92)
Bio: 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 runner-up My Side of the Mountain.
Known for:
- My Side of the Mountain (1959)
- Julie of the Wolves (1972)
- Julie's Wolf Pack (1997)
- Frightful's mountain (1999)
- The missing 'gator of Gumbo Limbo (1992)