She and her husband Michael have two children and live near New York City.Īlthough the majority of Jean Fritz's writing is nonfictional, let's start with her excellent historical novels. She returned to China a few years ago and wrote about that experience of rediscovering her roots in China Homecoming (Putnam, 1985 ISBN 0399211829. She came to the United States when she was thirteen where again she felt misplaced. Her life there already had an international flavor since she lived in a French compound, attended a British school, had two German best friends and spoke fluent Chinese. She also tells us a great deal about the culture of China of the 1920s. Hardcover.), she describes feeling homesick for the America she knew only through her father's stories about life there. In her book Homesick: My Own Story (Dell, 1984 ISBN 0440436834. The only child of missionary parents, Jean often felt lonely and misplaced in the country where she was born. She was, however, greatly interested in the culture of America. As a child Jean Fritz had little interest in the subject of American history about which she was to teach us all so much. For our author study this quarter, let's look at the work of Jean Fritz.
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