E. L. KONIGSBURG
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 - ) 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.
Born Elaine Lobl February 10, 1930, in New York, Konigsburg grew up in small
towns in Pennsylvania, the second of three daughters. As valedictorian, she
graduated high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania, and worked briefly as a
bookkeeper in a wholesale meat plant to earn money for college. There she met
the brother of one of the owners who would later become her husband, David
Konigsburg.
Konigsburg enrolled in Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and
earned a degree in chemistry. After graduating, she married David Konigsburg, a
graduate student in psychology. She entered graduate school in chemistry at the
University of Pittsburgh, but after her husband attained his doctorate, they
moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where Konigsburg worked as a science teacher at
a school for girls. There she began to think about a new direction for her
talents and also became the mother of three children. This new direction would
begin after the family moved to Port Chester, New York, and she started art
lessons and then began writing. Her first novel Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth,
William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was inspired by her daughter's experiences
moving to a new home.
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 - ) 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.
Born Elaine Lobl February 10, 1930, in New York, Konigsburg grew up in small
towns in Pennsylvania, the second of three daughters. As valedictorian, she
graduated high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania, and worked briefly as a
bookkeeper in a wholesale meat plant to earn money for college. There she met
the brother of one of the owners who would later become her husband, David
Konigsburg.
Konigsburg enrolled in Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and
earned a degree in chemistry. After graduating, she married David Konigsburg, a
graduate student in psychology. She entered graduate school in chemistry at the
University of Pittsburgh, but after her husband attained his doctorate, they
moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where Konigsburg worked as a science teacher at
a school for girls. There she began to think about a new direction for her
talents and also became the mother of three children. This new direction would
begin after the family moved to Port Chester, New York, and she started art
lessons and then began writing. Her first novel Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth,
William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was inspired by her daughter's experiences
moving to a new home.