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Jean Fritz

  • “Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

    • Jean Fritz,
    • in William Zinsser, ed., Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children ()

  • “When I ... discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”

    • Jean Fritz,
    • in Diane Asséo Griliches, For the Love of Libraries ()

Jean Fritz, U.S. children's history & biography writer

(1915)

Full name: Jean Guttery Fritz.