Jean Guttery Fritz, born November 16, 1915, is an American children's author and biographer. She was born to American missionaries in Hankow, China, where she lived for the next thirteen years, where, to ease the loneliness of being an only child, kept a journal. She came to the United States and in 1937 graduated from [[Wheaton College. Her first book "Bunny Hopwell's First Spring" was published in 1954. She often wrote Westerns or stories of old America because her father would tell her stories of American heroes as she was growing up. Eventually she published her autobiography, "Homesick, My Own Story" in 1982 and wn the Newbery Honor citation the following year. Her hard work for children earned her the 1986 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. She currently lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York.Jean also wrote mk.
