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Elinor Lander Horwitz

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Elinor Lander Horwitz (March 8, 1929 – November 3, 2022) was an American author of young adult and adult books.[1] She lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Mountain People, Mountain Crafts was on The New York Times' list of "Outstanding Books."[2] "When the Sky is Like Lace" was on the New York Times' list of "Outstanding Books" of the year.

Personal life

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Elinor Lander Horwitz was born on March 8, 1929, in New Haven, Connecticut, where she was also raised.[3] After graduating from Smith College, Horwitz wrote book reviews and features for the Washington Star News and for many national magazines. She married neurosurgeon Norman Horwitz.[4]

Horwitz was the mother of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz and the mother-in-law of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Geraldine Brooks.

Elinor Lander Horwitz died at her home in Rock Creek, Washington, D.C., on November 3, 2022, at the age of 93.[3]

Selected works

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  • The Strange Story of the Frog Who Became a Prince
  • The Soothsayer's Handbook: A Guide to Bad Signs & Good Vibrations
  • Communes in America: The Place Just Right
  • Capital Punishment, U.S.A.
  • Mountain People, Mountain Crafts
  • Contemporary American Folk Artists
  • A Child's Garden of Sculpture: Photographed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
  • The Bird, the Banner, and Uncle Sam: Images of America in Folk and Popular Art
  • Madness, Magic, and Medicine: The Treatment and Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
  • On the Land: The Evolution of American Agriculture
  • Our Nation's Lakes
  • Our Nation's Wetlands
  • Sometimes It Happens
  • How to Wreck a Building
  • When the Sky is Like Lace

References

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  1. ^ "Biography: Elinor Lander Horwitz". scholastic.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-08.
  2. ^ "Outstanding Books". The New York Times. November 3, 1974.
  3. ^ a b "Elinor Lander Horwitz". Legacy. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  4. ^ Horwitz, Elinor Lander Contemporary American Folk Artists. Lippincott. ISBN 0397316275. p. 143.