Jean Fritz
America was a place of dreams and stories for the first 13 years of Jean Fritz' life-
years spent in China with her missionary parents. It was after coming to the U.S. to live that she became enthralled with history, a preoccupation that has fueled her writing career.
Born in 1915, Fritz spent time as a librarian when her first children's books wouldn't sell. She then went on to become one of the best-known biographers of books written for children. At a time when most children's writers were writing fictionalized biographies, Fritz found a way to make non-fiction appealing and refreshing.
Jean Fritz has won a Regina Medal, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and a Knickerbocker Award.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Why not, Lafayette? |
The Cabin Faced West |
Stonewall |
Brady |
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt |
George Washington’s Mother |
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? |
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln |
The Great Little Madison |
Surprising Myself |
Shh!! We’re Writing the Constitution |
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? |
China Homecoming |
Can’t You Make Them Behave, King
George? |
The Double Life of Pocahontos |
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? |
Homesick: My Own Story |
Where Do You Think You’re Going,
Christopher Columbus? |
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold |
Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29 th of May? |
Who’s That Stopping on Plymouth
Rock? |
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? |
Why Don’t You Get a Horse, Sam
Adams? |
Make Way for Sam Houston |
George Washington’s Breakfast |
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers |
Early Thunder |
