She won again for The View from Saturday in 1997, 29 years later, the longest span between two Newberys awarded to one author.įor her contribution as a children's writer Konigsburg was U.S. They made her the only person to be Newbery Medal winner and one of the runners-up in one year. Konigsburg submitted her first two manuscripts to editor Jean 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. 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, Elaine LoblĮlaine Lobl Konigsburg was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. (New York City, New York, United States of America)Įlaine Lobl Konigsburg, E.L.
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