She now lives on the beach in North Florida. When the third of her three children started kindergarten, she began to write. For several years she taught science at a private girls’ school. Konigsburg did graduate work in organic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2000 she wrote Silent to the Bone, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, among many other honors.Īfter completing her degree at Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. She has also written and illustrated three picture books: Samuel Todd’s Book of Great Colors, Samuel Todd’s Book of Great Inventions, and Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale’s. 1 Jennifer, Hecate was the author's first book published, the same year as her second book From the Mixed-Up. It was published by Atheneum Books in 1967 and next year in the UK by Macmillan under the title Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth and Me.
Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View From Saturday. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth is a children's novel by E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth 1st ed.
Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and be runner-up in the same year.
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