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ELIZABETH WINTHROP is the author of over sixty works of fiction for all ages.

Her new picture book, MAIA AND THE MONSTER BABY, with illustrations by Amanda Haley will be published by Holiday House in August, 2012.

Writing as Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, she has just published an ebook memoir piece entitled DON'T KNOCK UNLESS YOU'RE BLEEDING, Growing up in Cold War Washington. The working title for her work-in-progress is MY PARENTS' LOVE AFFAIR, An Unlikely Romance in Wartime England.

The daughter of the journalist, Stewart Alsop,she divides her time between New York City and the Berkshires.

Her most recent historical novel, COUNTING ON GRACE was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the American Library Association, the National Council of Soci...more





I am losing three mothers this year.


My own mother died in November. One of my best “book mothers”, Nina Ignatowicz, the editor I’d worked with for forty years, died in January. And my other “book mother,” Margery Cuyler, a friend from college days and my other primary editor (The Castle in the Attic, The Battle for the Castle and many more) has announced she will be retiring at the end of 201...

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