Jean Fritz
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Jean Fritz, born November 16, 1915, is an American children's author and biographer. She was born to American missionaries in Hankow, China, where she lived for the next thirteen years, where, to ease the loneliness of being an only child, kept a journal. Her first book was The Cabin Faced West. She often wrote Westerns or stories of old America because her father would tell her stories of American heroes as she was growing up. Her hard work for children earned her the 1986 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. She currently lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
