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About the Author
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Jean Craighead George was born in Washington, D.C, and reared in a family of naturalists. Most of her life has been centered on writing and nature. George says, "I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like atwig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I worte a poem, To a Walking Stick. I was in the third grade and have been writing ever since." George spent one summer outside Barrow, Alaska, observing wolves and studying the vast tundra. This was the beginning of her fascinations with wolves. "If there ever was any doubt in my jind that a man could live with the wolves, it is gone now. The wolves are truly polite, highly social, and affectionate." George resisted writing a sequel to Julie of the Wolves until her young readers inundated her with questions about what happened to Julie and her wolves. Finally, Jean George says, she simply knew it was time to continue Julie's story. Over the years, she has kept hundreds of pets, including a racoon, a tarantula, and various kinds of birds in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become chracters in my books, articles. and stories." Jean Craighead
George is the mother of three grown children who are also naturalists. She says that she
never wants to retire because there are always stories to be found in the wilderness and books to
be written so that the stories may be shared.
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