Borski the iron-grey librarian who steered my little canoe so wisely and well. A pause, then, for a moment of gratitude to Mrs. As a kid, I was reading some fine, fine writers all unaware. Which it is.Ĭoming to this straight from a re-read of Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books, I find myself unsurprised that I grew up with a deep and abiding love for the written word. I remembered loving it, and I remembered lots besides, but I did not remember it being howlingly funny. Read moreįirst re-read of this in probably a decade.

Translated into many languages throughout the world, Elizabeth Enright's stories are for both the young and the young at heart. She taught creative writing at Barnard College. Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published in The New Yorker, The Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Yale Review, Harper’s, and The Saturday Evening Post. Among her other beloved titles are her books about the Melendy family, including The Saturdays, published in 1941. Throughout her life, she won many awards, including the 1939 John Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake.

After creating her first book in 1935, she developed a taste, and quickly demonstrated a talent, for writing. Illustration was Enright's original career choice and she studied art in Greenwich, Connecticut Paris, France and New York City. Her mother was a magazine illustrator, while her father was a political cartoonist. Elizabeth Enright (1907-1968) was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent most of her life in or near New York City.

Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright