JEAN
CRAIGHEAD GEORGE,
a Chappaqua resident known around the world for her award-winning books,
says “I write for children. Children are still in love with the wonders
of nature, and I am too. So I tell them stories about a boy and a falcon,
a girl and an elegant wolf pack, about owls, weasels, foxes, prairie dogs,
the alpine tundra, the tropical rain forest. And when the telling is done,
I hope they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.”
She now has over 100 books to her credit including Newbery Medal-winning
Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain, both of
which have popular sequels. In 1991, Ms. George became the first winner
of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's
Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature, presented for the “consistent
superior quality” of her works.
JOSEPH
BRUCHAC,
an author, storyteller, and editor, lives in the house in the Adirondack
foothills where he was raised by his grandparents. He has written more
than one hundred books for adults and children, many drawing on the Abenaki
Indian culture. He has edited a number of highly praised anthologies of
contemporary poetry and fiction, including Songs from this Earth on
Turtle's Back, Returning the Gift, and Breaking Silence, which
won an American Book Award. Among his many other honors are the NEA/PEN
Syndicated Fiction Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native
Writers Circle of the Americas, and most recently the Paterson Prize for
Children's Literature for his memoir, Bowman's Store, which honors
the grandfather whose Abenaki ancestry was for a long time a family secret.
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The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.