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E(laine). L(obl). Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 - ) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 Young-adult fiction (often abbreviated as YA fiction, or simply YA) is Fiction written for published for or marketed to adolescents roughly between the She is the only author to win the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year (1968), with her second and first books respectively: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA to the author of the The Newbery Honor is a citation given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler is a novel by E Jennifer Hecate Macbeth William McKinley and Me Elizabeth is one of E Konigsburg won a second Newbery Medal in 1997 for The View from Saturday, 29 years later, the longest span between any two Newberys awarded to one author. The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA to the author of the The View from Saturday is a Children's novel written by E L Konigsburg.

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Biography

Born Elaine Lobl February 10, 1930, in New York, Konigsburg grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania, the second of three daughters. [1] As valedictorian, she graduated high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania, and worked briefly as a bookkeeper in a wholesale meat plant to earn money for college. Farrell is a city in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. There she met the brother of one of the owners who would later become her husband, David Konigsburg. [2]

Konigsburg enrolled in Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and earned a degree in chemistry. This article is about a center of higher learning For the foundation which supports scientific research refer to the Carnegie Institution of Washington. After graduating, she married David Konigsburg, a graduate student in psychology. She entered graduate school in chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, but after her husband attained his doctorate, they moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where Konigsburg worked as a science teacher at a school for girls. The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a non-sectarian coeducational independent state-related, "public" research University There she began to think about a new direction for her talents and also became the mother of three children. This new direction would begin after the family moved to Port Chester, New York, and she started art lessons and then began writing. Port Chester is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. Her first novel Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was inspired by her daughter's experiences moving to a new home. Jennifer Hecate Macbeth William McKinley and Me Elizabeth is one of E [3]

Notes

  1. ^ Konigsburg's autobiography
  2. ^ CMS Library Information System
  3. ^ Konigsburg's autobiography

Works

Awards

Web Pages on Konigsburg

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