Awards & Winners

Jean Fritz

Date of Birth 16-November-1915
Place of Birth Hankou
(China, Hubei)
Nationality United States of America, China
Also know as Jean Guttery Fritz
Profession Author, Biographer, Writer
Jean Guttery Fritz is an American children's writer best known for American biography and history. She won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986.

Awards by Jean Fritz

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jean Fritz.

1986


Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
Spur Award for Best Juvenile
Honored for : Make Way for Sam Houston

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal

1983


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : Homesick
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover)
Honored for : Homesick

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal Homesick
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover) Homesick

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children's Books (Nonfiction) Traitor, the case of Benedict Arnold

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Nonfiction, Hardcover) Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?