Elizabeth Enright

American author

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In children’s literature: Contemporary times
…(1941–43) and Ginger Pye (1951); Elizabeth Enright, with her Melendy family (1941–44); and Robert McCloskey, with Homer Price (1943)—to name only three unfailingly popular writers. Text-and-picture books for the very young posed an obdurate challenge: to create literature out of absolutely simple materials. That challenge, first successfully met by Beatrix…
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