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