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Jean Fritz (Jean Guttery) was born on 16 November, 1915 in Hankow, China, is an American children's writer. Discover Jean Fritz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 101 years old?
| Popular As |
Jean Guttery |
| Occupation |
Writer |
| Age |
101 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
| Born |
16 November 1915 |
| Birthday |
16 November |
| Birthplace |
Hankow, China |
| Date of death |
14 May, 2017 |
| Died Place |
Sleepy Hollow, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality |
China
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Jean Fritz Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Jean Fritz's Husband?
Her husband is Michael Fritz
| Family |
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| Husband |
Michael Fritz |
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Jean Fritz Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jean Fritz worth at the age of 101 years old? Jean Fritz’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. She is from China. We have estimated Jean Fritz's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
| Cars |
Not Available |
| Source of Income |
writer |
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Timeline
Jean Guttery Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14, 2017) was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history.
She graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 1937 and married Michael Fritz in 1941.
They had two children, David and Andrea.
Fritz's writing career started with the publication of several short stories in Humpty Dumpty magazine early in the 1950s.
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.
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 historical novel for children was The Cabin Faced West (1958).
Her autobiography, Homesick, My Own Story (1982), won a National Book Award for Young People's Literature in the Children's Fiction category and was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal.
The latter American Library Association award recognizes the year's best American children's book but almost always goes to fiction.
Later, Fritz won two annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for children's nonfiction.
She won the Children's Legacy Literature Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986.
In 1986, she received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the ALA, which recognizes a living author or illustrator, whose books, published in the United States, have made "a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children".
At the time it was awarded every three years.
That year she was also U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition available to creators of children's books.
New York Times outstanding book of the year citations:
She turned 100 in November 2015 and died in May 2017 at the age of 101.
Fritz was born to American Presbyterian missionaries Arthur Minton Guttery and the former Myrtle Chaney in Hankow, China, where she lived until she was twelve.
Growing up, she attended a British school and kept a journal about her days in China with her amah, Lin Nai-Nai.
The family emigrated to the United States when she was in eighth grade.
