E.L. Konigsburg






E.L. Konigsburg

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born
February 10, 1930

gender
female

place of birth
New York, The United States

genre
Children's Books


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Elaine Lobl Konigsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. 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. Kongisburg 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.





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avg rating: 4.05 | 20,875 ratings | 2,387 reviews | 28 distinct works | 65 fans
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs... From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 4.18 — 11,260 ratings — published 1967
50 editions
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The View from Saturday The View from Saturday
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 3.82 — 2,658 ratings — published 1996
22 editions
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Silent to the Bone Silent to the Bone
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 3.81 — 778 ratings — published 2000
13 editions
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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Pl... The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 3.87 — 735 ratings — published 2004
7 editions
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Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, Wil... Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 3.73 — 485 ratings — published 1967
16 editions
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and... A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 3.87 — 379 ratings — published 1973
6 editions
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The Mysterious Edge of the Her... The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 3.26 — 326 ratings — published 2007
5 editions
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The Second Mrs. Gioconda The Second Mrs. Gioconda
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 3.59 — 242 ratings — published 1975
11 editions
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Father's Arcane Daughter Father's Arcane Daughter
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 3.69 — 109 ratings — published 1976
8 editions
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Up From Jericho Tel Up From Jericho Tel
by E.L. Konigsburg
avg rating 3.74 — 94 ratings — published 1986
4 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)
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"Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender"
E.L. Konigsburg (The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World)
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"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 and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."
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