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That same year, she was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame for her significant contributions to art through literature and visual media. Konigsburg,' an exhibit at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in 2000. A retrospective of her art, including handwritten manuscripts and illustrations from her books comprised 'Pages and Stages: The Art of E.L. Later, inspired by her grandchildren, she produced several picture books as well. Her publisher agreed and she continued to illustrate her books through much of her early career. When she submitting her first novel she sent along a series of sketches: 'I thought illustrations were considered integral to the text.'

She began studying art in the 1960s, and illustrated many of her books, including her first ones. Downstairs, she shaped wooden figures and painted postcards, folding screens and canvases. In the loft of her 700-square-foot studio in Ponte Vedra Beach, she wrote. 'Schuyler Place' tells the story of how 12-year-old Margaret Rose Kane and her great uncles, who rescue her from camp, spend the summer organizing a campaign to save the quirky towers constructed primarily of scrap metal, crystal, glass, bits of porcelain and discarded clock parts that the uncles had built over the course of 45 years.Įlaine Konigsburg was a writer, and she was also an artist. 'The adults aren't pals with the children … there is a mutual respect from both sides, but the adults hold their own ground,' she said upon the publication of 'The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place' in 2004. Her protagonists were always precocious, but never disrespectful, an important aspect of her style, method and message. All her plots incorporate life she recalled from her own childhood, life when her children were school-age, and life as she lived it.

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