Elizabeth Enright (1907–1968)
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The Maple Tree and Other Stories 1 exemplar
The Crystal Locket 1 exemplar
Melendy Quartet 1 exemplar
And Then There Were Six 1 exemplar
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The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 05: In Your Own Backyard (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 142 exemplar
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 55 exemplar
Newbery Awards Library A Wrinkle in Time, The Twenty-One Balloons, Strawberry Girl, Thimble Summer, & Roller Skates (1975) 13 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Gillham, Elizabeth Wright Enright
- Födelsedag
- 1907-09-17
- Avled
- 1968-06-08
- Begravningsplats
- Wainscott Cemetery, Suffolk County, New York, USA
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Oak Park, Illinois, USA
- Dödsort
- Wainscott, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- Art Students League of New York
Parsons School of Design - Yrken
- illustrator
teacher (Barnard College ∙ creative writing)
children's book author
children's book illustrator
short story writer
book critic - Relationer
- Wright, Frank Lloyd (uncle)
Barney, Maginel Wright (mother)
Enright, Walter J. (father) - Kort biografi
- Elizabeth Enright's mother, Maginel Wright Enright, was a popular magazine and children's book illustrator, and her father, Walter J. Enright, was a political cartoonist. The couple divorced when Elizabeth was 11 years old, and she was sent to a boarding school in Connecticut. She spent summers on Nantucket and on her uncle Frank Lloyd Wright's farm in Wisconsin, locations she later used in some of her works. She studied dancing for time under Martha Graham, and attended the Art Students League of New York, Parsons School of Design, and studied art in Paris. In 1930, she married Robert Gillham, an advertising executive, with whom she had three sons. She created her first book, Kintu: A Congo Adventure, in 1935. Among her beloved children's books are those featuring the Melendy family, including The Saturdays (1941). Elizabeth Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published in national publications such as The New Yorker, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s, and The Saturday Evening Post. She also taught creative writing at Barnard College and reviewed children's literature for The New York Times. writing. She won many awards in her career, including the 1939 Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake.
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- Verk
- 24
- Även av
- 11
- Medlemmar
- 10,252
- Popularitet
- #2,315
- Betyg
- 4.2
- Recensioner
- 149
- ISBN
- 161
- Språk
- 5
- Favoritmärkt
- 24
- Proberstenar
- 141
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