Talk:From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

message: I don't know whether this coverage by Anita Silvey is notable. I simply wrote it into the lead section, rather than delete the reference, when I provided the more appropriate ALA.org American Library Association source for the Newbery Medal. --P64 (talk) 01:00, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  100 Best Books for Children 

message: Online Simon & Schuster currently notes
*Mixed Up Files, ages 8-12, grades 4-6
Is such information commonly included in articles on children's books, either from the publisher or assessed by some outside review? Anyway, here are the data with link. --P64 (talk) 22:15, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Level 

message: :What are your children's names? Have they ever served as character models for any of your books?
:Their names are Paul, Laurie, and Ross. They have posed for the illustrations in my books. Laurie was Claudia and Ross was Jamie in From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. 
:How important are characters to the story?
:Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end and I know some important incidents along the way. I can give an example of this. When I was writing From the Mixed-up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler, I did not know until Claudia was in Mrs. Frankweiler's house that she was going to take a bath in Mrs. Frankweiler's magnificent marble tub. It wasn't until I got her in that room that I knew what she was going to do. It's because at that point in the story, I knew the character Claudia as well as I know my own children.
:Is the character of Mrs. Frankweiler based on yourself?
:Actually, Mrs. Frankweiler was based on Miss Olga Pratt, who was headmistress of Bartram's School, the school where I taught. The woman who posed as Mrs. Frankweiler was a Miss Anita Brougham. And she lived in the same apartment house as we did, and one day in the elevator I asked if she would pose for me. And she did, and when that book won the Newbery, we had moved away from the apartment house. And a friend of mine who still lived there met Mrs. Brougham in the elevator and asked her how she felt to be famous. And she said, "I am very pleased for Mrs. Konigsburg."
:Did you ever hear anything from Miss Pratt in regards to your book's winning the Newbery?
:She had never been vain enough to check this sort of thing out! Miss Pratt was not wealthy, but she was a matter-of-fact person. Kind, but firm. 
E. L. Konigsburg, Interview Transcript. No date. Scholastic Teachers. scholastic.com.
Those exchanges quoted from the interview concern Mixed-Up Files directly and primarily. --P64 (talk) 02:23, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scholastic interview 

message: The frequent Kincaid expression for nonsense is spelled boloney, not baloney, and Bologna, Italy is a clue that Claudia recalls when it is crucial.--P64 (talk) 23:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bologna 

message: "A $225 Sculpture May Be a Master's Worth $500,000", Milton Esterow, Oct 26, pp. 1,42
:Abstract at nytimes.com (pay to view entire article)
"Museum Shows $225 'Bargain': Metropolitan to Test Bust To Determine Its Sculptor", Grace Glueck, Oct 27, p. 49. Abstract
"Art Expert Seeks to Date 'Bargain': Will Compare Metropolitan Statue and One in Italy", Oct 29, p. 50. Abstract
NYTimes.com makes some historical available free of charge and searchable by google. I don't hit these three, except their titles in the footNote to this article. --P64 (talk) 19:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metropolitan Museum bargain statue 1965 

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message: Why is this in the category "authorship debates"? Perhaps I have missed it, but I don't see anything about an authorship debate in the article.Bill (talk) 18:48, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Based on wikiblame (linked from the history tab) it was added by  in this edit (along with , which I understand). I'm not aware of any authorship debate about this book either. --Pokechu22 (talk) 18:52, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

text: "The sculptor unknown but suspected to be". Apokrif (talk) 23:28, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Authorship debates