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Elizabeth Wright Enright Gillham (September 17, 1909 – June 8, 1968) was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing. Perhaps best known as the Newbery Medal-winning author of ''Thimble Summer'' (1938) and the Newbery runner-up ''Gone-Away Lake'' (1957), she also wrote the popular Melendy quartet (1941 to 1951). A multiple winner of the O. Henry Award, her short stories and articles for adults appeared in many popular magazines and have been reprinted in anthologies and textbooks. In 2012 ''Gone-Away Lake'' was ranked number 42 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by ''School Library Journal'', a monthly with primarily U.S. audience. The first two Melendy books also made the Top 100, ''The Saturdays'' and ''The Four-Story Mistake''. ==Life and death== Elizabeth Wright Enright was born September 17, 1909, in Oak Park, Illinois. Her father, Walter J. Enright, was a political cartoonist. Her mother, Maginel Wright Enright, (the younger sister of famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright), was also a book and magazine illustrator, a shoe designer for Capezio, and author of the memoir, ''The Valley of the God-Almighty Joneses.'' The Enrights divorced when Elizabeth was eleven, and after that she attended boarding school in Connecticut.〔Silvey, Anita (editor), ''The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators'', Houghton Mifflin, 2002, p. 143.〕 Her mother remarried, becoming Maginel Wright Barney. Originally, Enright intended to be a dancer, and for a time she studied under the famous Martha Graham.〔Cech, John (ed.), ''American Writers for Children, 1900–1960'', Gale Research, 1983.〕 Her summers were spent on Nantucket Island, off the coast of New England, a location she later used in some of her books. Preparing for a career as an illustrator, Enright studied at the Art Students League of New York in 1927–1928,〔Miller, Bertha Mahony, and Elinor Field (eds.), ''Newbery Medal Books: 1922–1955'', Boston: Horn Book, 1955, , p. 169.〕 and at the Parsons School of Design, Paris (not New York City).〔 Enright also reviewed children's literature for the ''New York Times'', taught creative writing at Barnard College, a women's college affiliated with the then all-male Columbia University in New York City's Morningside Heights neighborhood on the Upper Westside, (1960–1962), and led writing seminars at colleges across the U.S.A.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Accuracy Project (accuracyproject.org) )〕 Enright married Robert Gillham, an advertising executive with the J. Walter Thompson agency, April 24, 1930.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Palos Verde Patch )〕 They had three sons: Nicholas, Robert and Oliver (1948–2008). On May 12, 2008, her youngest son, Oliver Gillham, took his own life despondent over his wife's earlier death from cancer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Boston Globe )〕 There is some confusion surrounding the circumstances of her early death, aged 58, with some claiming that she took her own life at her home in Wainscott, Long Island, New York State on June 8, 1968. Her obituary in the ''New York Times'' on June 9, 1968, states that she "died in her sleep at her home... after a short illness." She is buried in Wainscott Cemetery in Wainscott, Long Island, New York State in Suffolk County, New York, next to her husband and mother. There is also a flat stone commemorative tablet for Elizabeth Enright, along with her husband and mother in Unity Chapel Cemetery in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin, where many members of her mother's family, the Lloyd-Joneses, are buried. The cemetery is adjacent to her uncle Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark home, Taliesin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Enright」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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