A proud taste for scarlet and miniver

Eleanor of Aquitaine's life unfolds as she and three other persons reminisce while waiting for King Henry II to join them in heaven.

Main Author:	Konigsburg, E. L.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2001, c1973.
Edition:	1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Subjects:	Eleanor, > Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, > 1122?-1204 > Juvenile fiction. Great Britain > History > Plantagenets, 1154-1399 > Juvenile fiction.

Summary:	Eleanor of Aquitaine's life unfolds as she and three other persons reminisce while waiting for King Henry II to join them in heaven.
Item Description:	Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1973.
Physical Description:	201 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
ISBN:	068984624X : PAP
Author Notes:	Elaine Lobl Konigsburg, noted children's writer and illustrator, was born February 10, 1930 in New York City. She received a BS in chemistry from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1952. She did graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh. Her best-known titles included A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, The Second Mrs. Giaconda, Father's Arcane Daughter, and Throwing Shadows. She won the Newbery Honor in 1968 for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and the William Allen White Award in 1970. She won the Newbery Medal again in 1997 for The View from Saturday. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was adapted into a motion picture starring Ingrid Bergman in 1973 and later released as The Hideaways in 1974. It became a television film starring Lauren Bacall in 1995. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was adapted for television as Jennifer and Me for NBC-TV in 1973. She died on April 19, 2013 from complications of a stroke that she had suffered a week prior at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography)