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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

Children Books

  • 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

Books Written

Young Adult Books

  • 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
  • her family
  • childhood
  • books
  • 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

Interesting Facts

Birthday

Date: March 13 1928

Milwaukee, WI

Full Name

Ellen Ermingard Raskin

Facts from Childhood

  • 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
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