E. L. Konigsburg - Knowledge (XXG)

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sexuality... Konigsburg was committed to depicting young people as capable knowers of what goes on in their own minds, homes, and the wider world they inhabit. Bad things happen in her novels when adult characters fail to respect this competence. At the same time, however, Konigsburg emphasizes that all knowledge is perspectival; the particular social position that each of us inhabits shapes what we know and how we come to know it."

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all the creature comforts of the world, but ... were just as uncomfortable inside as I was when I was growing up." Later she realized that her own children were middle-class suburban kids with comforts unlike her own. She has written about "their kind of growing up, something that addressed the

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She has told Scholastic Teachers, "The essential problems remain the same. The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else.They want acceptance for both."

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As summarized by critic Marah Gubar, "For five decades, Konigsburg challenged readers by tackling subjects often avoided in children’s books, from the undercurrent of hostility that runs through an interracial friendship to the domestic unrest generated by the stirrings of pubescent and parental

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Many of Konigsburg's stories feature childhood and adolescent struggles that are easy for school-age readers to understand. Often her characters are striving to find the answers to big questions that will help shape their identities. Many of them are based on her own experiences as a child, the

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In 1952, she married David Konigsburg, with whom she had three children, Paul (born 1955), Laurie (born 1956), and Ross (born 1959). As of 2002, she had five grandchildren, Samuel Todd and Amy Elizabeth being the eldest children of Laurie and Ross. Her husband, David Konigsburg, died in 2001.

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towns, the second of three daughters. She was born to two Jewish immigrants who moved from New York City to a mill town in Pennsylvania. She was an avid reader, although reading was only "tolerated" in her family, "not sanctioned like dusting furniture or baking cookies". She was high school

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in Farrell, Pennsylvania, where there was no guidance counseling and she never heard of scholarships. To earn money for college, she worked as a bookkeeper at a meat plant, where she met David Konigsburg, the brother of one of the owners.

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was inspired by her children's complaints about a picnic with many amenities of home; she inferred that if they ever ran away "hey would certainly never consider any place less elegant than the Metropolitan Museum of Art."

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The biographical essay "E(laine) L(obl) Konigsburg 1930–" identifies all the works illustrated by Konigsburg herself, the alternative titles of UK editions, the adaptations listed here, and audio recordings not listed

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Konigsburg learned of those first two books' 1968 Newbery Award and honorable mention during her family's move back from Port Chester to Jacksonville. When she composed her autobiographical statement for

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in Greater New York (1962), where she continued art lessons and joined the Art Students League. She began to write in the mornings when her third child started school. Her first published story

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Especially her characters are "softly comfortable on the outside and solidly uncomfortable on the inside". Teaching at Bartram, she learned that supposed "spoiled young women who had it all

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problems that come about even though you don't have to worry if you wear out your shoes whether your parents can buy you a new pair, something that tackles the basic problems of who am I?"

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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. She won again for

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is the person that she would most like to meet. Her work has been translated and published in multiple languages, including Korean.

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award recognizes the best children's book published 20 years earlier that did not win a major award; it is named for the

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For her contribution as a children's writer Konigsburg was U.S. nominee in 2006 for the biennial, international

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Konigsburg is the author of the following books; those she illustrated are noted ("illus. ELK"). She said that

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manuscript, and a two-page "sequel" to that book which Konigsburg wrote for the 1968 Newbery awards banquet.

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observations she made of children while a teacher, and the experiences or observations of her children.

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The Afterword includes reproductions of Jean Karl's July 21, 1966, letter to Mrs. Konigsburg about the

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recordings, four of Konigsburg's novels have been adapted and produced as movies or plays.

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in 1997, 29 years later, the longest span between two Newberys awarded to one author.

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for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American children's literature."

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1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from Carnegie Mellon University

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The Pittsburgh Novel: Western Pennsylvania in Fiction and Drama, 1792-2022

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was inspired by Laurie's experience as a new girl in Port Chester.

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This article is about the American author. For other uses, see

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Konigsburg took the new direction after the family moved to

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Publishers Weekly website, Obituary, dated April 20, 2013

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Konigsburg submitted her first two manuscripts to editor

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TalkTalk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-ups

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