{"id":2105,"date":"2014-11-13T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2014-11-13T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T19:31:08","slug":"raskin-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/raskin-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Raskin, Ellen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Ellen Raskin, who was born on March 13, 1928, began her career as an illustrator and designer, freelancing for the Saturday Evening Post<\/i> and pharmaceutical journals. During her early career she created over 1,000 book jackets, including the Newbery winner A Wrinkle In Time<\/i> (1963) by Madeline L’Engle.<\/p>\n

But writing was always in her blood and after 15 years as an illustrator she published her own book Nothing Ever Happens on My Block<\/i> (1966). “As far back as I can remember,” she wrote, ” I invented characters. My sister and I would spend weeks at a time acting out the lives of at least 10 character each.” Her delightful word play won her a Newbery all her own with The Westing Game<\/i> (1979).<\/p>\n

“I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package\u2014and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.”<\/p>\n

Ellen Raskin died August 8, 1984, in New York City.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Heidi Grosch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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