{"id":1627,"date":"2014-10-24T07:14:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2014-10-24T07:14:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:14:45","slug":"enright-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/enright-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Enright, Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1632 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ph_elizabethenright.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Enright\" width=\"140\" height=\"169\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1631 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_thim.jpg\" alt=\"Thimble Summer\" width=\"120\" height=\"183\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1630 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_saty.jpg\" alt=\"The Saturdays\" width=\"120\" height=\"183\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1629 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_gone.jpg\" alt=\"Gone-Away Lake\" width=\"120\" height=\"183\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Born on September 17, 1909, Elizabeth Enright<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is well-remembered for her beautiful books about family life, including\u00a0<em>Gone-Away Lake, The Saturdays<\/em>, and the 1939 Newbery Medal winner,<em>Thimble Summer<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Thimble Summer\u00a0<\/em>is set on a Wisconsin farm, which is where Ms. Enright spent many of her summers\u2014with her uncle Frank Lloyd Wright on his Spring Green, Wisconsin farm.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother was an artistic person as well. Maginel Wright Enright Barney was Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s sister and he encouraged her to draw and illustrate. She illustrated a plethora of magazine articles, as well as several of L. Frank Baum&#8217;s books written under his pseudonym, Laura Bancroft.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Enright lived in New York City as an adult. She studied at the Art Students League and in Paris, intending to follow in her mother&#8217;s footsteps as an illustrator. Exploring her memories of childhood inspired her to write, which eventually became her expression of choice. She reviewed books for\u00a0<em>The New York Times Book Review<\/em>\u00a0and taught creative writing at Barnard College. Ms. Enright died at her home on Long Island in 1968 and she is buried near Spring Green in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014\u00a0Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on September 17, 1909, Elizabeth Enright\u00a0is well-remembered for her beautiful books about family life, including\u00a0Gone-Away Lake, The Saturdays, and the 1939 Newbery Medal winner,Thimble Summer.\u00a0Thimble Summer\u00a0is set on a Wisconsin farm, which is where Ms. Enright spent many of her summers\u2014with her uncle Frank Lloyd Wright on his Spring Green, Wisconsin farm. 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