Elaine Lobl Konigsburg, who wrote under the name E. L. Konigsburg, was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She is best known for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which won the Newbery Medal in 1968, and for The View from Saturday, which won the same medal in 1997. Her first two books were both published in 1967, and she died in 2013.
