Talk:E. L. Konigsburg

message: OK, looks like nobody's been here in a while. In any case, if someone DOES stop by ... anyone know where the old peer review went?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mistsrider (talk • contribs) 09:49, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Almost four years later there is no sign of the old peer review. --P64 (talk) 19:48, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Old peer review

message: I am so sorry.  I completely damaged the biography section, and I dont know how, and I don't know how to fix it.  If somebody could please fix it, that would be great.  Thank You.
~~Sorry In USA~~  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.46.8 (talk) 04:03, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Resolved —reverted 20 minutes later. --P64 (talk) 23:59, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: So Sorry

message: Three days ago I wrote editor Jean E. Karl into the article with references.
At the same time, I expanded the Newbery records at two points without references. My only source is our article Newbery Medal, so marked by my HIDDEN COMMENT (twice).
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I am not sure that the previous editor's observation remains notable (29 years between Newberys) — it's rather trivial beside the supposed fact that only five people have won two of the Medals — but I have retained it, without the previous undue emphasis. --P64 (talk) 00:09, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newbery records 

message: "Reverting possible vandalism" shows up on my watchlist. Edit history shows that User:65.4.128.78 made two edits at 23:31 and 23:34.
*insertion "BLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" at the top, which was immediately reverted by a robot
*insertion "she is 81 Year old" at the top, which was substantially helpful (I corrected her birthdate from 1939 to 1930 with references). 
I hope someone else is watching. --P64 (talk) 00:19, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible vandalism 

message: P.S. So famous a writer should have a better biography and the three books named in the lead section, at least, should have substantial articles rather than stubs or starts (mainly Plot outline and annotated list of Characters). --P64 (talk) 00:19, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have completed some major revision of this biography and the four articles on those Newbery books and also The Second Mrs. Giaconda. And I have dared to upgrade all from Stub/Start to C. Attention to the critical literature is now the most important omission, in my opinion. --P64 (talk) 02:28, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Much work needed 

message: E. L. Konigsburg, Interview Transcript. No date. Scholastic Teachers. scholastic.com.
::(interjection 2012-01-05) date evidently between 1996 month?? publication of her The View From Saturday and 2000 March 30 death of her "forever editor" Jean E. Karl.
These two exchanges quoted from the interview directly and primarily concern Father's Arcane Daughter (or My Father's Daughter) and the relationship with editor Jean Karl. —evidently, by inference from Karl's obituary and Konigsburg's reference to "the same editor always".
::(interjection 2012-02-04) Jean Karl is her recently deceased "stalwart" in the 35th anniversary afterword to Mixed-Up Files (2002), which includes a reproduction of Karl's 1966 letter to her concerning the manuscript.
:Which of your books is your favorite?
:It changes. I think Father's Arcane Daughter. That's one of my best books.It was difficult to write, because you get your ideas from situations you know about. And this was a situation I knew about, and I had to disguise everything. And I think I did it pretty successfully. That book was made into "Caroline?", a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. The opening was very different from the opening of my book, but I thought they did a very good job of capturing the book's spirit. It was about having a sibling who's handicapped.
:How do you go about revising your writing?
:My editor - I've had the same editor always [evidently Jean Karl]- sends me some suggestions. I have had two books go directly from manuscript to typescript, which is like getting an A+ on a paper. My editor makes suggestions, and I read them all and work with them. Neither she nor I approves of someone going in to tweak the story. We agree that you should read the comments over the whole story, and then decide what you are going to churn up. You don't change little bits at a time.
For other pointed selections see Talk pages for her three Newbery books and for Jean Karl
*Talk:Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth#Scholastic interview
*Talk:From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler#Scholastic interview.
*Talk:The View from Saturday#Scholastic interview 
*Talk:Jean E. Karl#Editing Konigsburg
--P64 (talk) 02:24, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: --P64 (talk) 17:43, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: --P64 (talk) 16:17, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scholastic interview 

message: catalogues one of her works, the novel Up from Jericho Tel. Certainly that is speculative fiction (and a novel). 
I don't know whether that is unique among her works. ISFDB doesn't completely execute its own design and its design may exclude works below some interest- or reading- level that is relevant here.
--P64 (talk) 03:01, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculative fiction 

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