Elinor Lander Horwitz

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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

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  3. Horwitz, Elinor Lander Contemporary American Folk Artists. Lippincott. ISBN 0397316275. p. 143.