E. L. Konigsburg (1930–2013)
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Om författaren
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg, noted children's writer and illustrator, was born February 10, 1930 in New York City. She received a BS in chemistry from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1952. She did graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh. Her best-known titles visa mer included A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, The Second Mrs. Giaconda, Father's Arcane Daughter, and Throwing Shadows. She won the Newbery Honor in 1968 for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and the William Allen White Award in 1970. She won the Newbery Medal again in 1997 for The View from Saturday. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was adapted into a motion picture starring Ingrid Bergman in 1973 and later released as The Hideaways in 1974. It became a television film starring Lauren Bacall in 1995. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was adapted for television as Jennifer and Me for NBC-TV in 1973. She died on April 19, 2013 from complications of a stroke that she had suffered a week prior at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Ron Kunzman/Simon & Schuster, via Associated Press
Serier
Verk av E. L. Konigsburg
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth (1967) — Omslag, vissa utgåvor; Illustratör, vissa utgåvor — 1,281 exemplar
The Mask Beneath the Face: Reading About and With, Writing About and For Children (1990) 10 exemplar
Paperback Plus Teacher's Resource Guided Reading From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Invitations to… (1996) 3 exemplar
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, and the Whipping Boy (2009) 2 exemplar
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth: Novel-Ties Study Guide (1993) 1 exemplar
HUn' Iestate nella citta vecchia 1 exemplar
The view from saturday 1 exemplar
The mysterious edge of the heroic world 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
When I Was Your Age, Volume Two: Original Stories About Growing Up (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 91 exemplar
Scholastic Book Clubs Chapters - A Special Sampling of Novels By Newbery Authors (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Konigsburg, Elaine Lobl
- Födelsedag
- 1930-02-10
- Avled
- 2013-04-19
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- New York City, New York, USA
- Dödsort
- Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
Youngstown, Ohio, USA
Farrell, Pennsylvania, USA
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Port Chester, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Carnegie Mellon University (Chemistry)
University of Pittsburgh - Yrken
- author
illustrator
bookkeeper
teacher - Relationer
- Konigsburg, David (husband)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award 1968
William Allen White Children's Book Award 1970
Regina Medal (2001)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
YA Modern Fiction i Name that Book (juli 2016)
What Are You Reading the Week of 7 February 2014? i What Are You Reading Now? (februari 2015)
Book read in elementry school 2nd-5th grade child locked in museum i Name that Book (mars 2009)
Recensioner
Listor
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Favourite Books (1)
Sonlight Books (6)
Overdue Podcast (1)
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Newbery Adjacent (1)
1960s (1)
Witchy Fiction (1)
Best Young Adult (1)
Books for Tori (1)
Urban Fiction (1)
Female Author (1)
Elevenses (2)
Comfort Reads (1)
1970s (1)
Tagged Runaways (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 39
- Även av
- 6
- Medlemmar
- 30,435
- Popularitet
- #652
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
- 593
- ISBN
- 407
- Språk
- 13
- Favoritmärkt
- 38
I remembered a few good sections and the exchange of characters leading each other back and forth,
but the ending in The Files was a true surprise.
(Just wish that, even in 1967, Mrs. Basil had moved to a happy smaller home and given away her money to poor folks.)