It always made me want to puke, but we did it every weekend for over a year.” Mom would meet up with us in the museum, take us to study Impressionist or Modern art. “I was the oldest, so I was in charge, and I had three rules: One, we had to see the mummy. “Mom took art lessons in on Saturdays, so she would drop all three of us kids off at the Metropolitan,” says Paul.
One institution in particular served as both babysitter and source of inspiration.
The Konigsburgs never lived in New York City, but the metropolis always provided a cultural respite. When the three of us kids would come home for lunch, she would read what she wrote,” says Paul Konigsburg, 62. “When we were in grade school, Mom would write in the morning. So Elaine became a stay-at-home mother of three, and while living in Port Chester, New York, decided to start writing.
She had trouble with the lab work her son Paul says more than once, she blew the sink up-and lost her eyebrows-mixing the wrong elements. She earned a degree in chemistry from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and married industrial psychologist David Konigsburg in 1952. (The same year, her debut novel Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth received the Newbery runner-up honor Konigsburg is the only author to ever achieve the dual literary feat.)Įlaine Lobl (E.L.) was born in Manhattan in 1930, but grew up in small-town Pennsylvania. The 1968 Newbery Medal winner has never been out of print.
The classic children’s book turns 50 in 2017, and the tale of the Kincaid siblings spending their days wandering about the paintings, sculptures and antiquities, and their nights sleeping in antique beds handcrafted for royalty, is as popular as ever. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. If visions of Claudia and Jamie bathing-and collecting lunch money-in the Met’s Fountain of Muses bring up fond childhood memories of your own, you’re among the legions of readers who grew up loving E.L. And the Metropolitan Museum of Art hasn’t been the same since. A half-century ago, a girl and brother ran away to New York City from their suburban Connecticut home.
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