EL Konigsburg

Children's Author

Birthday February 10, 1930

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace New York City, NY

DEATH DATE Apr 19, 2013 (83)

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About

A Newbery Medal-winning author, she penned the 1997 children's book, The View from Saturday, which focuses on the life of a paraplegic girl. Her other acclaimed works include From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967) and Silent to the Bone (2000).

Before Fame

She studied chemistry at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. She published her first children's work, "Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth," in 1967.

Trivia

She published The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World in 2007.

Family Life

She married David Konigsburg in 1952. Together, the couple had three children.

Associated With

Her novel, the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, was adapted into a film starring Ingrid Bergman.