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Jan 1, 1915 — Jan 1, 2017· 102 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · JUVENILE · BIOGRAPHY

Jean Fritz

Also known as: JEAN FRITZ, Fritz Jean and Clute Tom

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Jean Guttery Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14, 2017) was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history. She won the Children's Legacy Literature Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986. She turned 100 in November 2015 and died in May 2017 at the age of 101.

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Harriet Beecher had always understood that, along with her sisters, she was second best in her family.

— from Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher preachers, 1994

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Just a few words, Mr. Lincoln

1993

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Provides a look at the private side of Abraham Lincoln and at the circumstances surrounding his short, but memorable speech at the dedication of the cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield. Includes text of the speech.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher preachers

1994

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The Worlds of Childhood (The Writer's Craft)

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Essays on writing for children by well respected children's authors.

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