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{{Short description|American writer and illustrator (1928–1926)}}
{{Short description|American writer and illustrator (1928–1984)}}
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| resting_place =
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| occupation = Writer, illustrator
| occupation = Writer, illustrator
| education = [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
| education = [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin]]
| alma_mater =
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* ''[[The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues]]''
* ''[[The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues]]''
* ''[[The Westing Game]]''
* ''[[The Westing Game]]''
| spouse = [[Dennis Flanagan]] (m. 1965, second husband)
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* [[Roy Kuhlman]] (m. 1957; div. 1958-1960)
| children =
* [[Dennis Flanagan]] (m. 1960, second husband)
}}
| children = [[Susan Kuhlman Metcalfe]]<ref name=simmons/>
| parents = {{plainlist|
* [[Solomon Raskin]]
* [[Margaret (Goldfisch) Raskin]]<ref name=simmons/>
}}
| relatives =
| relatives =
| awards = {{awd|Newbery Medal|1979|The Westing Game}} <!-- major awards only -->
| awards = {{awd|Newbery Medal|1979|The Westing Game}} <!-- major awards only -->
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==Life==
==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 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> where she grew up during the [[Great Depression]]. She was educated at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin]] 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/>
Raskin was an accomplished graphic artist. She worked in New York City 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/>
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/>
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 ==
== 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}}
At the age of 17, Raskin entered the University of Wisconsin with the intention of majoring in journalism. However, after visiting an art exhibit at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]],<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> she changed her major to fine arts.


==Works==
==Works==
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===As illustrator===
===As illustrator===
Raskin also illustrated more than twenty books by other writers.<ref name=bibliog/>
Raskin also illustrated more than twenty books by other writers.<ref name=bibliog/>
* ''Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls'', edited by Claire H. Bishop, Ungar, 1956
* ''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 <!-- changed from New Directions, 1959, because our book article credits other illustrators of earlier editions -->
* ''The Bound Man and Other Stories'', by [[Ilse Aichinger]], transl. by Eric Mosbacher, New York: Noonday Press, 1956.
* ''[[A Child's Christmas in Wales]]'', by [[Dylan Thomas]] (1950); J. M. Dent, 1968.<!-- changed from New Directions, 1959, because our book article credits other illustrators of earlier editions -->
* ''Mama, I Wish I Was Snow, Child You'd Be Very Cold'', by Ruth Krauss, Atheneum, 1962
* ''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)
* ''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
* ''Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'', selected by Dwight MacDonald, Crowell, 1965.
* ''We Dickinson's'', by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum, 1965
* ''We Dickinson's'', by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum, 1965.
* ''The Jewish Sabbath'', by Molly Cone, Crowell, 1966
* ''The Jewish Sabbath'', by Molly Cone, Crowell, 1966.
* ''Paths of Poetry: Twenty-Five Poets and Their Poems'', ed. [[Louis Untermeyer]], Delacorte, 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
* ''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
* ''D. H. Lawrence: Poems Selected for Young People'', ed. William Cole, Viking, 1967.
* ''Ellen Grae'', by Vera and Bill Cleaver, Lippincott, 1967
* ''Ellen Grae'', by Vera and Bill Cleaver, Lippincott, 1967.
* ''Poems of Robert Herrick'', ed. Winfield T. Scott, Crowell, 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 ‡
* ''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 ‡
* ''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
* ''Books: A Book to Begin On'', by Susan Bartlett, Holt, 1968.
* ''Inatuk's Friend'', by Suzanne Stark Morrow, Atlantic/Little, 1968
* ''Inatuk's Friend'', by Suzanne Stark Morrow, Atlantic/Little, 1968.
* ''A Paper Zoo: A Collection of Animal Poems by Modern American Poets'', edited by Renee K. Weiss, Macmillan, 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.
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* ''Symmetry'', by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 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.
* ''We Alcotts'', by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum, 1968
* ''Circles and Curves'', by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1969. ‡
* ''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.
* ''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. <!-- first US edition? -->
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* ''Three and the Shape of Three'', by Razzell and Watts, Doubleday, 1969 ‡
* ''[[Elidor]]'', by [[Alan Garner]] (1965), Walck, 1970 <!-- first US edition? -->
* ''[[Goblin Market]]'', by [[Christina Rossetti]] (1862), Dutton, 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.<!-- see TALK#Mathematics -->
: ‡ 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.<!-- see TALK#Mathematics -->
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<ref name=kruse>[http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/authors/raskin/main.htm "Ellen Raskin: Notable Wisconsin Author"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214120410/http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/authors/raskin/main.htm |date=February 14, 2012 }} [Biography]. Ginny Moore Kruse. Copyright 1981, 2000. ''Wisconsin Authors and Illustrators''. The Cooperative Children's Book Center ['''CCBC''']; School of Education; University of Wisconsin (ccbc.education.wisc.edu).</ref>
<ref name=kruse>
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[http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/authors/raskin/main.htm "Ellen Raskin: Notable Wisconsin Author"] [Biography]. Ginny Moore Kruse. Copyright 1981, 2000. ''Wisconsin Authors and Illustrators''. The Cooperative Children's Book Center ['''CCBC''']; School of Education; University of Wisconsin (ccbc.education.wisc.edu).</ref>
<ref name=bibliog>
<ref name=bibliog>
[http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/authors/raskin/bib.htm "Books Written and Illustrated by Ellen Raskin"]. ''Wisconsin Authors and Illustrators''. CCBC. Retrieved 2010-12-25.</ref>
[http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/authors/raskin/bib.htm "Books Written and Illustrated by Ellen Raskin"]. ''Wisconsin Authors and Illustrators''. CCBC. Retrieved 2010-12-25.</ref>
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<ref name=SLJChapter2012>{{cite web |url= http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2012/07/07/top-100-chapter-book-poll-results |title= Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results |author= Bird, Elizabeth |publisher= A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. [[School Library Journal]] (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com) |date= July 7, 2012 |access-date= 2015-10-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120713031015/http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2012/07/07/top-100-chapter-book-poll-results |archive-date= July 13, 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
<ref name=SLJChapter2012>{{cite web |url= http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2012/07/07/top-100-chapter-book-poll-results |title= Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results |author= Bird, Elizabeth |publisher= A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. [[School Library Journal]] (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com) |date= July 7, 2012 |access-date= 2015-10-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120713031015/http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2012/07/07/top-100-chapter-book-poll-results |archive-date= July 13, 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
<ref name=simmons>{{cite web |url=https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/collectionguides/ManuscriptsCollection/MS085.html |title= Ellen Raskin Papers |work= MS 85 |institution= Simmons College Archives |location= Boston, MA, USA }}</ref>
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[[Category: American women novelists]]
[[Category: American women novelists]]
[[Category: American women children's writers]]
[[Category: American women children's writers]]
[[Category: Women mystery writers]]
[[Category:American women mystery writers]]
[[Category:20th-century American novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century American novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century American women writers]]
[[Category:20th-century American women writers]]

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Ellen Raskin
BornMarch 13, 1928 (1928-03-13)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.[1]
DiedAugust 8, 1984(1984-08-08) (aged 56)
New York, New York[2]
OccupationWriter, illustrator
BildungUniversity of Wisconsin
GenreChildren's novels, picture books
Notable works
Notable awardsNewbery Medal
1979 The Westing Game
Spouse
ChildrenSusan Kuhlman Metcalfe[3]
Parents

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.[4]

Leben

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Raskin was born in Milwaukee,[5] where she grew up during the Great Depression. She was educated at the University of Wisconsin with a major in fine art.[1][6]

Raskin was an accomplished graphic artist. She worked in New York City 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.[1]

In 1957, she married graphic designer Roy Kuhlman, but they soon divorced. In 1960 she married Dennis Flanagan, editor of Scientific American.[1][6]

Raskin died at the age of 56 on August 8, 1984, in New York City, as a result of a connective-tissue disease.[2]

Bildung

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At the age of 17, Raskin entered the University of Wisconsin with the intention of majoring in journalism. However, after visiting an art exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago,[7] she changed her major to fine arts.

Works

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Library resources about
Ellen Raskin
By Ellen Raskin

Children's picture books

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Raskin wrote and illustrated twelve picture books, published by Atheneum Books except as noted.[8]

  • 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

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Raskin wrote four novels, all published by E. P. Dutton.[8]

As illustrator

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Raskin also illustrated more than twenty books by other writers.[8]

  • Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls, edited by Claire H. Bishop, Ungar, 1956.
  • The Bound Man and Other Stories, by Ilse Aichinger, transl. by Eric Mosbacher, New York: Noonday Press, 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.
  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c d "Ellen Raskin: Notable Wisconsin Author" Archived February 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine [Biography]. Ginny Moore Kruse. Copyright 1981, 2000. Wisconsin Authors and Illustrators. The Cooperative Children's Book Center [CCBC]; School of Education; University of Wisconsin (ccbc.education.wisc.edu).
  2. ^ a b "Ellen Raskin". The New York Times. August 10, 1984.
  3. ^ a b "Ellen Raskin Papers". MS 85. Boston, MA, USA: Simmons College Archives.
  4. ^ Bird, Elizabeth (July 7, 2012). "Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. School Library Journal (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  5. ^ "Ellen Raskin". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Free Study Guide for The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin". Ray Mescallado. The Best Notes (thebestnotes.com). May 15, 2008.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". ccbc.education.wisc.edu. Archived from the original on April 8, 2019. Retrieved May 8, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ a b c "Books Written and Illustrated by Ellen Raskin". Wisconsin Authors and Illustrators. CCBC. Retrieved 2010-12-25.

Further reading

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  • 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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