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Elizabeth Enright

Born

in Oak Park, IL, The United States

September 17, 1909

Died

June 08, 1968

Genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Elizabeth Enright (1907-1968) was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent most of her life in or near New York City. Her mother was a magazine illustrator, while her father was a political cartoonist. Illustration was Enright's original career choice and she studied art in Greenwich, Connecticut; Paris, France; and New York City. After creating her first book in 1935, she developed a taste, and quickly demonstrated a talent, for writing. Throughout her life, she won many awards, including the 1939 John Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake. Among her other beloved children's titles are her books about the Melendy family, including The Saturdays, published in 1941. Enright also wrote short stories for adu ...more

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Elizabeth Enright’s books

Average rating: 4.1 · 42,967 ratings · 3,167 reviews · 43 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 10,000 ratings — published 1941 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright, Joe Krush (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 8,250 ratings — published 1957 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thimble Summer 3.75 avg rating — 7,919 ratings — published 1938 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 5,078 ratings — published 1942 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3) 4.28 avg rating — 4,671 ratings — published 1944 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze (The Melendy Family, #4) 4.02 avg rating — 3,473 ratings — published 1951 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return to Gone-Away (Gone-Away Lake, #2) by Elizabeth Enright, Beth Krush (Illustrator), Joe Krush (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 2,923 ratings — published 1961 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tatsinda by Elizabeth Enright, Katie Thamer Treherne (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1963 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Melendy Family 4.63 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1947 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea Is All Around 4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1940 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Elizabeth Enright

The Melendy Family (4 books)
by

Elizabeth Enright

4.20 avg rating — 23,411 ratings

Gone-Away Lake (2 books)
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Elizabeth Enright,

Beth Krush (Illustrator),

Joe Krush (Illustrator)

4.15 avg rating — 11,172 ratings

Quotes by Elizabeth Enright (?)

“Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.”
― Elizabeth Enright, Doublefields: Memories and Stories

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“Now isn't that nice!' said the old lady. 'If cousins are the right kind, they're best of all: kinder than sisters and brothers, and closer than friends.”
― Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

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“He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees, and autumn.”
― Elizabeth Enright, The Four-Story Mistake

tags: aromas, autumn

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