These are the kinds of stories Fritz includes in her biographies and histories. Madison took down a portrait of Washington, cut it out of the frame and saved it before the British burned the White House."
"You have to learn it all factually," she says, "but you have to feel it, too. history, from Benjamin Franklin to Harriet Beecher Stowe to Teddy Roosevelt.įritz worries that children do not find history interesting because there is too much emphasis on memorizing facts. "In my writing, I give people their place." In the last fifty years Fritz has written about many of the major figures in U.S. "History isn't boring, once you get to know the people," says children's author Jean Fritz.
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