E.L. Konigsburg

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968,From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerwon the Newbery Medal andJennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabethwas named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again forThe View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books areSilent to the Bone,The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, andThe Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.