Thank You, E.L. Konigsburg

Children’s book author E.L. Konigsburg has passed away at the age of 83. Her obituary in The New York Times included this quote from her:
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“I think most of us are outsiders … And I think that’s good because it makes you question things. I think it makes you see things outside yourself.”

Konigsburg definitely helped me see things outside myself, and I wonder how many of you feel the same. I wonder how many people grew up yearning to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art and climb into that regal bed after reading From the Mixed-Up Files? Met Eleanor of Acquitaine through A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver? First encountered Leonardo da Vinci in The Second Mrs. Giaconda? Learned from A View from Saturday that “tip” came from T.I.P., an acronym for “to ensure promptness”? Considered activism after reading The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place? 

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