![]() ![]() She now lives on the beach in North Florida. Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. Thats when a marvelous toad, Hilary Ezra, enters their lives. And she and Jennifer collaborate on cooking up an ointment that will enable them to fly. Shes also pretty lonely, until she meets Jennifer. When the third of her three children started kindergarten, she began to write. Elizabeth is an only child, new in town, and the shortest kid in her class. ![]() For several years she taught science at a private girls’ school. Konigsburg did graduate work in organic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. 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.Īfter completing her degree at Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. 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. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View From Saturday. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. ![]() Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and be runner-up in the same year. ![]()
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