13 Facts About Elizabeth Enright

Elizabeth Wright Enright Gillham was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing.

Elizabeth Enright's father, Walter J Enright, was a political cartoonist.

Elizabeth Enright's mother, Maginel Wright Enright, was 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.

Originally, Elizabeth Enright intended to be a dancer, and for a time she studied under the famous Martha Graham.

Elizabeth Enright's summers were spent on Nantucket Island, off the coast of New England, a location she later used in some of her books.

Elizabeth Enright 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, and led writing seminars at colleges across the USA.

Elizabeth Enright died aged 60 in her home in Wainscott, Long Island, New York State on June 8,1968.

Elizabeth Enright is buried in Wainscott Cemetery in Wainscott, Long Island, New York State in Suffolk County, New York, next to her husband and mother.

At one point Elizabeth Enright developed a series of sketches with an African flair.

Elizabeth Enright then wrote a story to go with them, and in 1935 her first book, Kintu: A Congo Adventure was published.

Elizabeth Enright wrote the popular Melendy Quartet, a series of four children's novels published between 1941 and 1951: The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, and Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze.

Elizabeth Enright's final book, Doublefields: Memories and Stories, is a combination of short fiction and tales from her own life experiences.