Jean Craighead George, 1919-2012.
From the New York Times:
In 1944 she married John George, an ornithologist, and settled into a domestic routine that included writing, motherhood and wildlife management. Over time, as she recounted in her memoir for children, “The Tarantula in My Purse” (1996), the household grew to include 173 pets, not counting cats and dogs.
Her book projects were ongoing and readers will see two new titles published posthumously. Dial Books for Young Readers will release The Eagles Are Back, the final volume in a picture-book trilogy written by George and illustrated by Wendell Minor in spring 2013, and Ice Whale, a novel she collaborated on with her son Craig, will be published by Dial later next year.
Open Road Media (via Fuse):
Jane Friedman, the CEO and founder of Open Road Media, and former CEO of HarperCollins, says George was a very strong, outspoken, and opinionated writer "in the best sense of all of those words."
"She knew her own mind and was the best thing you could say about anyone—she was her own woman."
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