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What is E. L. Konigsburg about?

"Each author really has a theme" Newbery Award-winner Elaine Lobl Konigsburg has said, "and Identity apparently is mine." Given how important "knowing who you are" is to 8- to 14-year-old readers, it is not difficult to see why the books of so witty a writer and illustrator should have such broad appeal among this audience. The author of eight novels, two story collections, and three picture books for younger readers, E.L. Konigsburg not only takes as her "task" a young person's struggle to make sense of his or her identity, but she situates this struggle in American suburbia, whose bright, neat, and orderly surface can mask a stringent, often cruel demand for conformity. In the first critical study to cover all Konigsburg's fiction, Dorrel T. Hanks, Jr., examines how her stories allow readers to distance themselves from their own identity struggles and thus to see those struggles in a new light. The myriad elements that can darken a child's life - arguments with siblings, anger at parents who "don't understand," coping with divorce and a single parent - Konigsburg handles with unfailing hopefulness, Hanks contends. He shows how her unfaltering wit and sometimes-irritating but alwa

Author

Hanks, Dorrel Thomas

Publisher

New York: Twayne Publishers ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada: New York: Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805719932

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities