High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jean Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer who authored over one hundred books for young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, the Newbery Honor book My Side of the Mountain, and its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain. Common themes in George`s works are the environment and the natural world. Although mostly a writer of children`s fiction, she also wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography, Journey Inward.