The Mask Beneath the Face: Reading About and With, Writing About and for Children (The Center for the Book Viewpoint Series) [Paperback]

E. L. Konigsburg (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 31 pages
• Publisher: Liberty Centennial Fund (November 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844407127
• ISBN-13: 978-0844407128
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,189,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

E. L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and be runner-up in the same year. In 1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View From Saturday. 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. 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.

After completing her degree at Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. Konigsburg did graduate work in organic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. For several years she taught science at a private girls' school. When the third of her three children started kindergarten, she began to write. She now lives on the beach in North Florida.