From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

Main Author: Konigsburg, E. L.
Other Authors: Clayburgh, Jill.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: [New York, NY] : Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio, Â2009.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Item Description: Title from container.
Compact discs.
Duration: 3:45:00.
Physical Description: 3 audio discs (approximately 3 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience: Ages 8 and up.
Production Credits: Producer and director: Elisa Shokoff.
ISBN: 9780743597159
074359715X
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)