Pages & Stages: The Art of E.L. Konigsburg

by E.L. Konigsburg

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.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Elaine Lobl Konigsburg was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She is one of six writers to win two Newbery Medals, the venerable American Library Association award for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American children's literature."
Konigsburg submitted her first two manuscripts to editor Jean E. Karl at Atheneum Publishers in 1966, and both were published in 1967: Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the 1968 Newbery Medal, and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was listed as a runner-up in the same year, making Konigsburg the only author to win the Newbery Medal and have another book listed as runner-up in the same year. She won again for The View from Saturday in 1997, 29 years later, the longest span between two Newberys awarded to one author.
For her contribution as a children's writer Konigsburg was U.S. nominee in 2006 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition available to creators of children's books.