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
about this author
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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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 by E.L. Konigsburg avg rating 3.82 — 2,658 ratings — published 1996 22 editions |
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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 Place by E.L. Konigsburg avg rating 3.87 — 735 ratings — published 2004 7 editions |
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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 Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg avg rating 3.87 — 379 ratings — published 1973 6 editions |
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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 by E.L. Konigsburg avg rating 3.59 — 242 ratings — published 1975 11 editions |
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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 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)
— 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)
— E.L. Konigsburg (The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World)
"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."
— E.L. Konigsburg
— E.L. Konigsburg
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