![]() ![]() ![]() Konigsburg mailed to the Atheneum publishing house in New York her first manuscript - a story of friendship and witchcraft that became “Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth.” In the late 1960s, then a Florida housewife with no agent, Mrs. She had the even rarer honor of being named a runner-up and winner in the same year, and for her first two published books. Konigsburg that she twice received the Newbery Medal, one of the highest awards in children’s literature. Her books fill a shelf or more and reveal an uncommon understanding of young people - their hopes and fears, their longing for adventure beyond bedroom walls and playground gates and their ability to overcome a common childhood affliction called loneliness. Konigsburg has been celebrated as one of the finest storytellers of her era and genre. ![]() Since her literary debut nearly half a century ago, Mrs. She was a longtime Florida resident and had lived for the past five years with another son in Ashburn. Her death, of complications from a stroke, was confirmed by her son Paul Konigsburg. Frankweiler” and other classics of children’s literature that have provided escape and companionship to generations of young readers, died April 19 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Konigsburg, the author of “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. ![]()
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