Elinor Lander Horwitz
Elinor Lander Horwitz (born March 1929) is an American author of young adult and adult books.[1] She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Mountain People, Mountain Crafts was on The New York Times' list of "Outstanding Books."[2]
Personal life
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.[3]
Horwitz is the mother of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz and the mother-in-law of journalist and author Geraldine Brooks.
Selected works
- 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
- Sometimes It Happens
- How to Wreck a Building
- When the Sky Is Like Lace
References
- ^ "Biography: Elinor Lander Horwitz". scholastic.com.
- ^ "Outstanding Books". The New York Times. November 3, 1974.
- ^ Horwitz, Elinor Lander Contemporary American Folk Artists. Lippincott. ISBN 0397316275. p. 143.