E.L. Konigsburg
| E. L. Konigsburg | |
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| Born | Elaine Lobl February 10, 1930 Manhattan, New York, USA |
| Died | April 19, 2013 (aged 83) Falls Church, Virginia, USA |
| Occupation | Writer, illustrator |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A., Chemistry, 1952(?) |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Institute of Technology |
| Period | 1967–2013 |
| Genre | Children's novels, short stories, picture books |
| Notable works |
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| Notable awards |
Newbery Medal 1968, 1997 Phoenix Award 1999 |
| Spouse | David Konigsburg (1952-2001; his death) |
| Children |
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Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 – April 19, 2013) 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 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. They made her the only person to be Newbery Medal winner and one of the runners-up in one year. She won again for The View from Saturday in 1997, 29 years later, the longest span between two Newberys awarded to one author.
For her contribution as a children's writer Konigsburg was U.S. nominee in 2006 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition available to creators of children's books.
Elaine Lobl was born in New York City on February 10, 1930, but grew up in small Pennsylvania towns, the second of three daughters. She was born to two Jewish immigrants who moved from New York City to a mill town in Pennsylvania. She was an avid reader, although reading was only "tolerated" in her family, "not sanctioned like dusting furniture or baking cookies". She was high school valedictorian in Farrell, Pennsylvania, where there was no guidance counseling and she never heard of scholarships. To earn money for college, she worked as a bookkeeper at a meat plant, where she met David Konigsburg, the brother of one of the owners.
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