Biography for
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Date of Birth

13 March 1928, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Date of Death

8 August 1984, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name

Ellen Ermingard Raskin

Mini Biography

Ellen Raskin was born in 1928. Later in her life, she married Dennis Flanagan. She wrote many books, perhaps the two most famous are "The Mysterious Disappearance Of Leon (I Mean Noel)" and "The Westing Game", both published in the 70s. The latter won the Newberry Award for the best children's book of the year. It remains one of the most famous fictional books ever published. Even after her death, it remains her most famous book. She died in the early 1980s, not a very famous author or illustrator except for The Westing Game.

IMDb Mini Biography By: karliemarlee

Spouse

Dennis Flanagan	(1960 - 8 August 1984) (her death)
?	(? - ?) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

She won a Newberry Award for the greatest children's' book of the year for "The Westing Game", in 1979. It was later made into "The Westing Game" (1997).