FriendFirst published over 30 years ago Friend: The Story of George Fox and the Quakers remains timeless gift. It brings to light, for young and old Friends, the life and legacy of the founder of Quakerism. Fox was a larger than life personality in a turbulent period in English history. Jane Yolen�s biography sets the context and chronicles Fox�s spiritual development. Never released in a paperback edition, we are please to offer this new edition with a foreword by Larry Ingle.
Jane Yolen has written over 270 books. She is a poet, novelist, children's book author, teacher, storyteller, and, most important, mother and grandmother. She lives part of the year in Massachusetts in an old clapboard farmhouse, part of the time in Scotland in a stone house. Her books and stories have won many awards including: two Nebulas, two Christopher Medals, three Mythopoeic Awards, a Caldecott Medal, a Jewish Book Award, the Catholic Library's Regina Medal. She has four honorary doctorates for her writing.
�Her selection of quotations is creative and she uses them in a way to make him [Fox] live, not only as a historical figure but one who has something to say to our own times. Torn by war and wracked by uncertainty and doubt, the people of Fox�s age wanted answers, and our author demonstrates those he offered.
------ Larry Ingle, author of First Among Friends:
George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism