As a chemistry student in graduate school, E. L. Konigsburg twice blew up the laboratory sink, "losing my eyebrows and bangs in the flash." She claims it was her fault that "the University of Pittsburgh moved their Graduate School of Chemistry the year...
Born in New York City, the second of three daughters and reared in mill towns in Pennsylvania. "Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of your place and a feeling of self-consciousness--self-consciousness about one's education and...
An impressive figure in children's literature, E. L. Konigsburg has the distinction of being the first and possibly only author to have had two books on the Newbery Honor list at the same time. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won...
E(laine). L(obl). 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...
E.L. Konigsburg's books share the theme of children seeking and finding their identities and learning to put the world in perspective. Her readers see themselves reflected in the individual personalities of the characters in her books. Readers frequently ask where E. L. Konigsburg,...
Children's author E.L. Konigsburg states that winning her first Newbery Medal in 1968 opened a Third Place for her. This place is a world outside home and work, where she has participated in the forums where children's literature is discussed. ... AS I...
