JOURNEY INWARD is the 1982 autobiography of Jean Craighead George, author of around 100 books (almost all for children and young adults, and almost all related to science and nature), including the Newbery Medal winner, JULIE OF THE WOLVES, and the Newbery Honor winner, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. This book basically covers from the period of newly wed Jean writing her first book (published in 1948) until the time JOURNEY INWARD was published, with a few flashbacks to her childhood and earlier adulthood.
The book chronicles Jean’s struggle to make a living, stay true to her artistic integrity in her writing, and raise three children in the turbulent era of the 1960’s (none of these an easy feat for a single woman, especially in that time period).
