Her first historical novel for children was The Cabin Faced West (1958). She often wrote westerns and other stories of frontier America because Arthur told her stories of American heroes as she was growing up. Her first book, Bunny Hopwell's First Spring, was published in 1954 and followed in 1955 by 121 Pudding Street, a work based on her own children. Career įritz's writing career started with the publication of several short stories in Humpty Dumpty magazine early in the 1950s. She graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 1937 and married Michael Fritz in 1941. The family emigrated to the United States when she was in eighth grade. Growing up, she attended a British school and kept a journal about her days in China with her amah, Lin Nai-Nai. Early life įritz was born to American Presbyterian missionaries Arthur Minton Guttery and the former Myrtle Chaney in Hankow, China, where she lived until she was twelve. She turned 100 in November 2015 and died in May 2017 at the age of 101. She won the Children's Legacy Literature Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986. Jean Guttery Fritz (Novem– May 14, 2017) was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history.
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