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The following is an Archived biography. For current information, see the Abstract for links.

Elaine Lobl (E.L.) Konigsburg, born on February 10, 1930, in New York, was the second of three daughters of businessman Adolph Lobl and Beulah Klein Lobl. Konigsburg spent her childhood in several small towns in Pennsylvania while growing up such as Phoenixville and Farrell, and Youngstown, Ohio. As a child, she read and was inspired by books likeThe Secret GardenandMary Poppins. In her teen years, she worked as a bookkeeper at the Shenango Valley Provision Company meat plant in Sharon (1947-1948), where she met her future husband, David Konigsburg. She graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania, as the valedictorian of her class.

Attending the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now the Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, she earned her chemistry degree and BS in 1952, even after suffering a couple of explosive accidents in the laboratory. On the side, she worked as a manager in a dormitory laundry, a playground instructor, a waitress, and a library page.

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EL Konigsburg

Konigsburg, born in New York in 1930, moved with her family to a series of small towns in Pennsylvania and had to figure out very early on how to create her own opportunities, because nobody was going to show her the way. Her parents were working-class people of Hungarian Jewish heritage who ended up in a mill town north of Pittsburgh where her father owned a bar. With three daughters, the parents worked hard: Elaine and her sisters wore clothes sewn by her mother.

No one in the family seemed to care about anything that did not involve the activities of daily living, so Elaine found, quite early, that if she wanted to read—and she did—she would have to do it by the light of a bare lightbulb in the only bathroom in their apartment above the bar. She hid in the bathroom at night and read books such as The Secret Garden and Mary Poppins. If a particularly sad passage moved her to tears, she would flush the toilet to keep her parents from hearing her crying. But not all of it was “good” literature.She later told the Satur

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E. L. Konigsburg

American writer

This article is about the American author. For other uses, see Königsberg (disambiguation).

Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 – April 19, 2013) 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."^[1]

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. Basil E. Frankweiler.^[2]^[3]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.^[a]^[4]