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The View from Saturday

The View from Saturday( )
Editor: Konigsburg, E. L.
Read by: Adamson, Rick
Ganser, L. J.
Hermann, Agnes
Mandvi, Aasif
Rosenblat, Barbara
Woodman, Jeff
ISBN:978-0-8072-7891-8
Publication Date:Oct 1997
Publisher:Random House Audio Publishing Group
Imprint:Listening Library
Book Format:Audio cassette
Paperback
List Price:USD $36.00
Author Biography
(Editor)
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg, noted children's writer and illustrator, was born February 10, 1930 in New York City. She received a BS in chemistry from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1952. She did graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh.

Her best-known titles included A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, The Second Mrs. Giaconda, Father's Arcane Daughter, and Throwing Shadows. She won the Newbery Honor in 1968 for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and the William Allen White Award in 1970. She won the Newbery Medal again in 1997 for The View from Saturday.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was adapted into a motion picture starring Ingrid Bergman in 1973 and later released as The Hideaways in 1974. It became a television film starring Lauren Bacall in 1995. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was adapted for television as Jennifer and Me for NBC-TV in 1973.

She died on April 19, 2013 from complications of a stroke that she had suffered a week prior at the age of 83.

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