E. L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and be runner-up in the same year. In 1968
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery
Medal and
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for
The View From
Saturday. 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. 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.
After completing her degree at Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. Konigsburg did graduate work in organic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. For several years she taught science at a
private girls' school. When the third of her three children started kindergarten, she began to write. She now lives on the beach in North Florida.
