Jean Craighead George

Jean Craighead George was born into a family of naturalists. Her father, mother, brothers, aunts and uncles were students of nature. On weekends her father took Jean and her twin brothers, Frank and John, up along the Potomac River near their Washington, D.C. home. They camped, climbed cliffs to study peregrine falcons, gathered edible plants and made fish hooks from twigs. Her first pet was a turkey vulture. She began to write in third grade and never stopped. She wrote over 100 books.