Jean Fritz
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About
American children's writer who won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her work in children's literature in 1986.
Before Fame
She graduated from Wheaton College in 1937 and started her writing career writing short stories for Humpty Dumpty magazine in the 1950s.
Trivia
She was nominated for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Family Life
She married Michael Fritz in 1941 and they had two children.
Associated With
Like her, Ellen Miles also became a celebrated children's book author.
