E.L. Konigsburg, one of the few authors to win the Newbery Medal for outstanding children’s literature twice, and the only one to win both the prize and the runner-up Newbery Honor prize in the same year, died Friday of complications from a stroke at her home in Falls Church, Virginia. She was 83. Konigsburg’s career was marked by a willingness to take young readers seriously, as people who could decipher more complicated literature than simple, straightforward tales. Her novels often include intricate structures, puzzles, and characters who aren’t immediately likable. Both of the novels for which ...
- 4/25/2013
- avclub.com
E.L. Konigsburg, Newbery Medal-winning children's author, has died at the age of 83, reports Publishers Weekly. The esteemed writer, who earned honors for "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" and "The View From Saturday," passed away Friday (April 19).
Konigsburg was born Elaine Lobl, growing up in western Pennsylvania and studying chemistry at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which is now Carnegie Mellon University. She married David Konigsburg and they had three children between 1955 and 1959.
"Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" is certainly her most widely-known book, but she wrote more than 20 titles for children, including works about historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Her most recent work as "The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World."
Konigsburg is survived by her three children, Paul, Laurie and Sam and several grandchildren. Her husband David passed away in 2001.
Konigsburg was born Elaine Lobl, growing up in western Pennsylvania and studying chemistry at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which is now Carnegie Mellon University. She married David Konigsburg and they had three children between 1955 and 1959.
"Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" is certainly her most widely-known book, but she wrote more than 20 titles for children, including works about historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Her most recent work as "The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World."
Konigsburg is survived by her three children, Paul, Laurie and Sam and several grandchildren. Her husband David passed away in 2001.
- 4/21/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Get past the fonts (Futura bus logos! Everyone knows calligraphy!) and the '60s pop songs, and you'll find that the real recurring motif in Wes Anderson's films is "Melancholy Childhoods of the Vietnam Era." This auteur can't get enough of sad kids wistfully reading novels with intricately painted dustjackets, listening to records on plastic tone-arm record players and dreaming of liberation. Not for nothing does one of the flashbacks in "The Royal Tenenbaums" reference E.L. Konigsburg's "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," a 1967 tale of two precocious...
- 5/23/2012
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
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