1999
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Issued in conjunction with a 1999-2000 exhibition featuring the artwork of American artist and children's book author-illustrator E. L. (Elaine Lobl) Konigsburg (1930- 2013). With an introduction from Konigsburg herself, and an extensive essay and scrutiny of her creative process. Includes archival illustrations and select individual drawings and paintings. She may be best known for one of her first books, "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," which won the Newbery Medal in 1968.
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E.L. Konigsburg
Author · 23 books
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg was an American author and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She was 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.
