ext_17913 ([identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2012-05-17 10:24 pm (UTC)

...and by two others that Jean Craighead George just died, and so like everyone else who ever dreamed of living in the wilderness between the ages of eight and whenever, I am rather sad.

Damn. This is the first I've heard. Her memory for a blessing.

I'm rather sad as well.*

ETA: I feel annoyed with myself for missing her obituary in the NYT, but I suppose maybe I hadn't got round to the obituaries yet.

My mother hadn't heard, either. She says that she met JCG at a children's literature conference at OSU, back in the nineties when she was a school librarian. It was probably when I was already away at college, but I'm surprised that I'd not remembered her telling me about it back then.

*I started to write "I, too, am rather sad", but remembered the unfelicitous association just in time.

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