Last place to live
- after moving to New York she got a divorce with Dennis Flanagan and continued to live with her daughter Susan Raskin
- died at the age of 56 due to some problems of a connective tissue disease on August 8th 1984
Websites I used
https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/authors/raskin/main.htm
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/ellen-raskin
Awards
- Newbery Medal
- Newbery Honor
Ellen Raskin
By: Hanna Lee
- Nothing Ever Happens on My Block
- Silly Songs and Sad
- Spectacles
- Ghost in a Four-Room Apartment
- And it Rained
- A & The, or, William T. C. Baumgarten Comes to Town
- The Worlds Greatest Freak Show
- Franklin Stein
- Moe Q. McGlutch, He Smoked Too Much, Parents
- Who, Said Sue, Said Who?
- Moose, Goose, said Nobody
- Twenty-Two, Twenty-Three
- The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon
- Figgs & Phantoms
- The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues
- The Westing Game
Ideas and Inspiration
Book Genre
- Children's Book
- Young Adult
- grew up from the Great Depression
- she designed dust jackets for 15 years including the one for Madeleine L'Engles
grew up from the Great Depression
Date: March 13 1928
Milwaukee, WI
- always wanted to be a writer
- described herself as self-critical, running-scared, compulsive perfectionist
Hobbies/Special Interest
- reading
- drawling/illustrator
- writing
- designer
College & Major
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- fine art
- received a disciplined education in the fundamental of anatomy, perspective, light, and shade, color, and techniques of painting and sculpture