Elizabeth Enright (1907–1968)
Auteur de Gone-Away Lake
A propos de l'auteur
Séries
Œuvres de Elizabeth Enright
Return to Gone Away CD book- 4 discs 2 exemplaires
The Maple Tree and Other Stories 1 exemplaire
The Crystal Locket 1 exemplaire
Melendy Quartet 1 exemplaire
And Then There Were Six 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 05: In Your Own Backyard (1962) — Contributeur — 168 exemplaires
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
Newbery Awards Library A Wrinkle in Time, The Twenty-One Balloons, Strawberry Girl, Thimble Summer, & Roller Skates (1975) 13 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Gillham, Elizabeth Wright Enright
- Date de naissance
- 1907-09-17
- Date de décès
- 1968-06-08
- Lieu de sépulture
- Wainscott Cemetery, Suffolk County, New York, USA
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Oak Park, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Wainscott, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Art Students League of New York
Parsons School of Design - Professions
- illustrator
teacher (Barnard College ∙ creative writing)
children's book author
children's book illustrator
short story writer
book critic - Relations
- Wright, Frank Lloyd (uncle)
Barney, Maginel Wright (mother)
Enright, Walter J. (father) - Courte biographie
- Elizabeth Enright's mother, Maginel Wright Enright, was a popular magazine and children's book illustrator, and her father, Walter J. Enright, was a political cartoonist. The couple divorced when Elizabeth was 11 years old, and she was sent to a boarding school in Connecticut. She spent summers on Nantucket and on her uncle Frank Lloyd Wright's farm in Wisconsin, locations she later used in some of her works. She studied dancing for time under Martha Graham, and attended the Art Students League of New York, Parsons School of Design, and studied art in Paris. In 1930, she married Robert Gillham, an advertising executive, with whom she had three sons. She created her first book, Kintu: A Congo Adventure, in 1935. Among her beloved children's books are those featuring the Melendy family, including The Saturdays (1941). Elizabeth Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published in national publications such as The New Yorker, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s, and The Saturday Evening Post. She also taught creative writing at Barnard College and reviewed children's literature for The New York Times. writing. She won many awards in her career, including the 1939 Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 25
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 10,583
- Popularité
- #2,246
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 150
- ISBN
- 160
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 24