Elizabeth Enright
17 September 1909 – 8 June 1968
Elizabeth Wright Enright Gillham (September 17, 1907 – June 8, 1968) was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing. Perhaps best known as the Newbery Medal-winning author of Thimble Summer (1938) and the Newbery runner-up Gone-Away Lake (1957), she also wrote the popular Melendy quartet (1941 to 1951). A Newbery Medal laureate and a multiple winner of the O. Henry Award, her short stories and articles for adults appeared in many popular magazines and have been reprinted in anthologies and textbooks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Enright
Books
- Gone-Away Lake (Gone-Away Lake #1)
- Borrowed summer
- The four-story mistake
- Tatsinda
- The riddle of the fly
- Kintu
- The Saturdays
- Return to Gone-Away
- Then there were five
- Thimble Summer
- The sea is all around
- The moment before the rain
- Melendy Family
- Return to Gone-Away
- A Christmas tree for Lydia
- Spiderweb for Two
- Return to Gone-Away (Gone-Away Lake #2)
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- Doublefields
- Zeee
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