LC control no. | n 80009978 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3556.R5697 |
Personal name heading | Fritz, Jean |
Variant(s) | Guttery, Jean |
Associated country | United States |
Located | West Hartford (Conn.) Dobbs Ferry (N.Y.) |
Birth date | 1915-11-16 |
Death date | 2017-05-14 |
Place of birth | Hankou (Wuhan, China) |
Place of death | Sleepy Hollow (N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Children's literature |
Profession or occupation | Authors |
Found in | Her Bunny Hopewell's first spring, 1954. Her Surprising myself, c1992: CIP t.p. (Jean Fritz) data sheet (b. 11-16-15; prominent children's bk. author) New York times WWW site, viewed May 19, 2017 (in obituary published May 17: Jean Fritz; b. Jean Guttery, Nov. 16, 1915, Hankow, China; returned to the U.S. with her family in the late 1920s and was reared in West Hartford, Conn.; m. Michael Fritz, 1941 (d. 1995); d. Sunday [May 14, 2017], Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., aged 101; previously a longtime resident of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; award-winning writer whose work helped transform historical biographies for children from leaden recitals of battles and dates into warm, human narratives full of quirks and crotchets and satisfyingly strange facts) |
Associated language | eng |