: 141 Her summers were spent on Nantucket Island, off the coast of New England, a location she later used in some of her books. Originally, Enright intended to be a dancer, and for a time she studied under the famous Martha Graham. Her mother remarried, becoming Maginel Wright Barney. The Enrights divorced when Elizabeth was eleven, and after that she attended boarding school in Connecticut. Her mother, Maginel Wright Enright, (the younger sister of famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright), was also a book and magazine illustrator, a shoe designer for Capezio, and author of the memoir, The Valley of the God-Almighty Joneses. Biography Įnright was born September 17, 1907, in Oak Park, Illinois. The first two Melendy books also made the Top 100, The Saturdays (novel) and The Four-Story Mistake. In 2012 Gone-Away Lake was ranked number 42 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily U.S. Henry Award, her short stories and articles for adults appeared in many popular magazines and have been reprinted in anthologies and textbooks. A Newbery Medal laureate and a multiple winner of the O. Perhaps best known as the Newbery Medal-winning author of Thimble Summer (1938) and the Newbery runner-up Gone-Away Lake (1957), she also wrote the popular Melendy quartet (1941 to 1951).

Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze (1951)Įlizabeth Wright Enright Gillham (Septem– June 8, 1968) was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing.

Thimble summer by elizabeth enright