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E.L. Konigsburg


Born
in New York City, The United States
February 10, 1930

Died
April 19, 2013

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Elaine Lobl Konigsburg was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She is one of six writers to win two Newbery Medals, the venerable American Library Association award for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American children's literature."
Konigsburg submitted her first two manuscripts to editor Jean E. Karl at Atheneum Publishers in 1966, and both were published in 1967: Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the 1968 Newbery Medal, and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was listed as a runner-up in the same year, making Ko
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Average rating: 4.06 · 293,458 ratings · 15,432 reviews · 54 distinct worksSimilar authors
From the Mixed-Up Files of ...

4.16 avg rating — 217,635 ratings — published 1967
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The View from Saturday

3.76 avg rating — 46,482 ratings — published 1996 — 72 editions
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Silent to the Bone

3.79 avg rating — 6,801 ratings — published 2000 — 54 editions
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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler...

3.82 avg rating — 4,919 ratings — published 2004 — 29 editions
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Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, ...

3.78 avg rating — 4,687 ratings — published 1967 — 64 editions
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet a...

3.87 avg rating — 3,629 ratings — published 1973 — 23 editions
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The Second Mrs. Gioconda

3.71 avg rating — 3,228 ratings — published 1975 — 12 editions
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The Mysterious Edge of the ...

3.39 avg rating — 1,571 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions
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Father's Arcane Daughter

3.73 avg rating — 1,056 ratings — published 1976 — 22 editions
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T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, an...

3.43 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 1993 — 18 editions
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“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

“I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.”
E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.”
E.L. Konigsburg

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