Ellen raskin author biography websites

American writer and illustrator (–)

Ellen Raskin (March 13, – August 8, ) was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in

In The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with a primarily-U.S.

American author and illustrator Ellen Raskin created fun pictures and text that made her accepted among young readers. She was the recipient of the Newbery Medal for the mystery manual The Westing Game (). Raskin was born on March 13, , in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

audience.^[4]

Life

Raskin was born in Milwaukee,^[5] where she grew up during the Great Depression. She was educated at the University of Wisconsin with a major in nice art.^[1][6]

Raskin was an accomplished graphic artist.

She worked in Recent York City as a commercial artist for about 15 years. Among other things, she crafted more than dust jackets for books, including the first edition of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, the Newbery Medal winner.^[1]

In , she married graphic designer Roy Kuhlman, but they soon divorced.

Ellen Raskin was born on March 13,in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Although she lived most of her adult life in New York City, Raskin's hometown and home state were very important to her. Raskin drew extensively on her childhood and her family as the subject matter of her novels, although the fantastic and unusual world of the novels disguises this from the reader. Although it is clear that some of her early memories—frequent moves, anti-Semitism, Depression Era poverty—were not content ones, she was close to her home state in later years, as a "Notable Wisconsin Author" and frequent visitor to the Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin, her alma mater.

In she married Dennis Flanagan, editor of Scientific American.^[1][6]

Raskin died at the age of 56 on August 8, , in New York Municipality, as a result of a connective-tissue disease.^[2]

Education

At the age of 17, Raskin entered the University of Wisconsin with the intention of majoring in journalism.

However, after visiting an art exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago,^[7] she changed her major to fine arts.

Works

Children's picture books

Raskin wrote and illustrated twelve picture books, published by Atheneum Books except as noted.^[8]

• Nothing Ever Happens on My Block,
• Silly Songs and Sad, Thomas Y.

  Crowell Co.,

• Spectacles,
• Ghost in a Four-Room Apartment,
• And It Rained,
• A & The, or, William T. C. Baumgarten Comes to Town,
• The World's Greatest Freak Show,
• Franklin Stein,
• Moe Q.

  McGlutch, He Smoked Too Much, Parents,

• Who, Said Sue, Said Whoo?,
• Moose, Goose & Little Nobody,
• Twenty-Two, Twenty-Three,

Children’s novels

Raskin wrote four novels, all published by E.

P. Dutton.^[8]

As illustrator

Raskin also illustrated more than twenty books by other writers.^[8]

• Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls, edited by Claire H.

  Bishop, Ungar,

• The Bound Gentleman and Other Stories, by Ilse Aichinger, transl. by Eric Mosbacher, New York: Noonday Press,
• A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas (); J. M. Dent,
• Mama, I Wish I Was Snow, Child You'd Be Very Cold, by Ruth Krauss, Atheneum,
• Philosophy and History.

  The Ernst Cassirer Festschrift, ed. Raymond Klibansky and H. J. Paton, (second edition)

• Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, selected by Dwight MacDonald, Crowell,
• We Dickinson's, by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum,
• The Jewish Sabbath, by Molly Cone, Crowell,
• Paths of Poetry: Twenty-Five Poets and Their Poems, ed.

  Louis Untermeyer, Delacorte,

• Songs of Innocence (Volumes 1 & 2), by William Blake (, ), music and illustrations by Ellen Raskin, Doubleday,
• D.
  Ellen Raskin March 13, — August 8, was an American children's writer and illustrator. In The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journala monthly with a primarily-U. Raskin was born in Milwaukee[ 5 ] where she grew up during the Great Depression. She was educated at the University of Wisconsin with a major in satisfactory art.

  H. Lawrence: Poems Selected for Young People, ed. William Cole, Viking,

• Ellen Grae, by Vera and Bill Cleaver, Lippincott,
• Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. Winfield T. Scott, Crowell,
• Probability: The Science of Chance, by Arthur G.

  Razzell and K. G. O. Watts, Doubleday, ‡

• This Is 4: the Idea of a Number, by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, ‡
• Books: A Novel to Begin On, by Susan Bartlett, Holt,
• Inatuk's Friend, by Suzanne Stark Morrow, Atlantic/Little,
• A Paper Zoo: A Collection of Animal Poems by Modern American Poets, edited by Renee K.

  Weiss, Macmillan,

• Piping Down the Valleys Wild: Poetry for the Young of All Ages, edited by Nancy Larrick, Delacorte,
• Symmetry, by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, ‡
• We Alcotts, by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum,
• Circles and Curves, by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, ‡
• Come Along!, by Rebecca Caudill, Holt,
• Shrieks at Midnight: Macabre Poems, Eerie and Humorous, edited by Sara and John E.

  Brewton, Crowell,

• Three and the Shape of Three, by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, ‡
• Elidor, by Alan Garner (), Walck,
• Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti (), Dutton,

‡ Raskin illustrated at least five volumes in a series of and page mathematics books by Arthur C.

Razzell and Kenneth George Oliver Watts, which was inaugurated by Doubleday in

References

Further reading

• Ellen Raskin (Volume of Twayne's United States Authors Series: Children's Literature), Marilynn Strasser Olson, Twayne Publishers, ; ISBN&#;

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