Ellen Raskin Ellen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 13, 1928. She was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game , a mystery novel , and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms , was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975. In 2012 The Westing Game was ranked number nine among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal , a monthly with a primarily-U.S. audience.Life Raskin was born in Milwaukee and grew up during the Great Depression . She was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a major in fine art. She had one daughter in her first marriage, which ended in divorce. Raskin was an accomplished graphic artist. In New York City she worked as a commercial artist for about 15 years. Among other things she designed more than 1000 dustjackets for books including the first edition of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time , the 1963 Newbery Medal winner. In 1960 she married Dennis Flanagan , editor of Scientific American. Raskin died at the age of 56 on August 8, 1984, in New York City, the result of a connective-tissue disease.Education Raskin entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison at age 17 with the intention of majoring in journalism.Works Raskin wrote and illustrated twelve picture books, published by Atheneum Books except as noted.Nothing Ever Happens on My Block , 1967Silly Songs and Sad , Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1967Spectacles , 1968Ghost in a Four-Room Apartment , 1969And It Rained , 1969A & The, or, William T. C. Baumgarten Comes to Town , 1970The World's Greatest Freak Show , 1971Franklin Stein , 1972Moe Q. McGlutch, He Smoked Too Much , Parents, 1973Who, Said Sue, Said Whoo? , 1973Moose, Goose & Little Nobody , 1976Twenty-Two, Twenty-Three , 1976Children’s novels Raskin wrote four novels , all published by E. P. Dutton.The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon , 1971Figgs & Phantoms , 1974The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues , 1975The Westing Game , 1978As illustrator Raskin also illustrated more than twenty books by other writers. Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls , edited by Claire H. Bishop, Ungar, 1956 A Child's Christmas in Wales , by Dylan Thomas ; J. M. Dent, 1968 Mama, I Wish I Was Snow, Child You'd Be Very Cold , by Ruth Krauss , Atheneum, 1962 Philosophy and History. The Ernst Cassirer Festschrift , ed. Raymond Klibansky and H. J. Paton, 1963 Poems of Edgar Allan Poe , selected by Dwight MacDonald, Crowell, 1965 We Dickinsons , by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum, 1965 The Jewish Sabbath , by Molly Cone, Crowell, 1966 Paths of Poetry: Twenty-Five Poets and Their Poems , ed. Louis Untermeyer , Delacorte, 1966 Songs of Innocence , by William Blake , music and illustrations by Ellen Raskin, Doubleday, 1966 D. H. Lawrence: Poems Selected for Young People , ed. William Cole, Viking, 1967 Ellen Grae , by Vera and Bill Cleaver, Lippincott, 1967 Poems of Robert Herrick , ed. Winfield T. Scott, Crowell, 1967 Probability: the Science of Chance , by Arthur G. Razzell and K. G. O. Watts, Doubleday, 1967 ‡ This Is 4: the Idea of a Number , by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1967 ‡ Books: A Book to Begin On , by Susan Bartlett, Holt, 1968 Inatuk's Friend , by Suzanne Stark Morrow, Atlantic/Little, 1968 Lady Ellen Grae , by Vera and Bill Cleaver, Lippincott, 1968 A Paper Zoo: A Collection of Animal Poems by Modern American Poets , edited by Renee K. Weiss, Macmillan, 1968 Piping Down the Valleys Wild: Poetry for the Young of All Ages , edited by Nancy Larrick, Delacorte, 1968 Symmetry , by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1968 ‡ We Alcotts , by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum, 1968 Circles and Curves , by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1969 ‡ Come Along! , by Rebecca Caudill , Holt, 1969 Shrieks at Midnight: Macabre Poems, Eerie and Humorous , edited by Sara and John E. Brewton, Crowell, 1969 Three and the Shape of Three , by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1969 ‡ Elidor , by Alan Garner , Walck, 1970 Goblin Market , by Christina Rossetti , Dutton, 1970
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