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'''Ellen Raskin ''' (March 13, 1928 – August 8, 1984) was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 [[Newbery Medal]] for ''[[The Westing Game]]'', a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, ''[[Figgs & Phantoms]]'', was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.

In 2012 ''The Westing Game'' was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by ''[[School Library Journal]]'', a monthly with a primarily-U.S. audience.<ref name=SLJChapter2012/>

==Life==
Raskin was born in [[Milwaukee]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10074.Ellen_Raskin|title=Ellen Raskin|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=2019-05-08}}</ref> and grew up during the [[Great Depression]]. She was educated at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] with a major in fine art.<ref name=kruse/><ref name=bestnotes/>

Raskin was an accomplished graphic artist. In New York City she worked as a commercial artist for about 15 years. Among other things she designed more than 1000 dust jackets for books including the first edition of [[Madeleine L'Engle]]'s ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'', the 1963 Newbery Medal winner.<ref name=kruse/>

In 1957, she married graphic designer Roy Kuhlman, but they soon divorced. In 1960 she married [[Dennis Flanagan]], editor of ''[[Scientific American]].''<ref name=kruse/><ref name=bestnotes/>

Raskin died at the age of 56 on August 8, 1984, in New York City, as a result of a connective-tissue disease.<ref name=NYT/>

== Education ==
Raskin entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison at age 18 with the intention of majoring in telegraphy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/authors/raskin/main.htm|website=ccbc.education.wisc.edu|access-date=2019-05-08|title=Archived copy|archive-date=April 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408210426/http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/authors/raskin/main.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, she suffered from severe attacks of depression, making her family life hard.{{cn|date=March 2021}}

==Works==
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===Children's picture books ===
Raskin wrote and illustrated twelve picture books, published by [[Atheneum Books]] except as noted.<ref name=bibliog/>
*''Nothing Ever Happens on My Block'', 1967
*''Nothing Ever Happens on My Block'', 1967
*''Silly Songs and Sad'', [[Thomas Y. Crowell Co.]], 1967
*''Silly Songs and Sad'', [[Thomas Y. Crowell Co.]], 1967

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  • Nothing Ever Happens on My Block, 1967
  • Silly Songs and Sad, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1967
  • Spectacles, 1968
  • Ghost in a Four-Room Apartment, 1969
  • And It Rained, 1969
  • A & The, or, William T. C. Baumgarten Comes to Town, 1970
  • The World's Greatest Freak Show, 1971
  • Franklin Stein, 1972
  • Moe Q. McGlutch, He Smoked Too Much, Parents, 1973
  • Who, Said Sue, Said Whoo?, 1973
  • Moose, Goose & Little Nobody, 1976
  • Twenty-Two, Twenty-Three, 1976

Children’s novels

Raskin wrote four novels, all published by E. P. Dutton.[1]

As illustrator

Raskin also illustrated more than twenty books by other writers.[1]

  • Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls, edited by Claire H. Bishop, Ungar, 1956
  • A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas (1950); J. M. Dent, 1968
  • Mama, I Wish I Was Snow, Child You'd Be Very Cold, by Ruth Krauss, Atheneum, 1962
  • Philosophy and History. The Ernst Cassirer Festschrift, ed. Raymond Klibansky and H. J. Paton, 1963 (second edition)
  • Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, selected by Dwight MacDonald, Crowell, 1965
  • We Dickinson's, by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum, 1965
  • The Jewish Sabbath, by Molly Cone, Crowell, 1966
  • Paths of Poetry: Twenty-Five Poets and Their Poems, ed. Louis Untermeyer, Delacorte, 1966
  • Songs of Innocence (Volumes 1 & 2), by William Blake (1789, 1794), music and illustrations by Ellen Raskin, Doubleday, 1966
  • D. H. Lawrence: Poems Selected for Young People, ed. William Cole, Viking, 1967
  • Ellen Grae, by Vera and Bill Cleaver, Lippincott, 1967
  • Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. Winfield T. Scott, Crowell, 1967
  • Probability: the Science of Chance, by Arthur G. Razzell and K. G. O. Watts, Doubleday, 1967 ‡
  • This Is 4: the Idea of a Number, by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1967 ‡
  • Books: A Book to Begin On, by Susan Bartlett, Holt, 1968
  • Inatuk's Friend, by Suzanne Stark Morrow, Atlantic/Little, 1968
  • Lady Ellen Grae, by Vera and Bill Cleaver, Lippincott, 1968
  • A Paper Zoo: A Collection of Animal Poems by Modern American Poets, edited by Renee K. Weiss, Macmillan, 1968
  • Piping Down the Valleys Wild: Poetry for the Young of All Ages, edited by Nancy Larrick, Delacorte, 1968
  • Symmetry, by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1968 ‡
  • We Alcotts, by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum, 1968
  • Circles and Curves, by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1969 ‡
  • Come Along!, by Rebecca Caudill, Holt, 1969
  • Shrieks at Midnight: Macabre Poems, Eerie and Humorous, edited by Sara and John E. Brewton, Crowell, 1969
  • Three and the Shape of Three, by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1969 ‡
  • Elidor, by Alan Garner (1965), Walck, 1970
  • Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti (1862), Dutton, 1970
‡ Raskin illustrated at least five volumes in a series of 32- and 48-page mathematics books by Arthur C. Razzell and Kenneth George Oliver Watts, which was inaugurated by Doubleday in 1964.

References

  1. ^ a b "Books Written and Illustrated by Ellen Raskin". Wisconsin Authors and Illustrators. CCBC. Retrieved 2010-12-25.

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Further reading

  • Ellen Raskin (Volume 579 of Twayne's United States Authors Series: Children's Literature), Marilynn Strasser Olson, Twayne Publishers, 1991; ISBN 9780805776270
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