Elinor Lander Horwitz (March 8, 1929 – November 3, 2022) was an American author of young adult and adult books. She lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
''Mountain People, Mountain Crafts'' was on ''The New York Times list of "Outstanding Books." "When the Sky is Like Lace" was on the New York Times' list of "Outstanding Books" of the year.
Personal life
Elinor Lander Horwitz was born on March 8, 1929, in
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound. With a population of 135,081 as determined by the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, New Haven is List ...
, where she was also raised.
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.
[Horwitz, Elinor Lander ''Contemporary American Folk Artists.'' Lippincott. . p. 143.]
Horwitz was the mother of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
Tony Horwitz
Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author, widely known for his articles and books on subjects including American history and society. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
...
and the mother-in-law of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
Geraldine Brooks.
Elinor Lander Horwitz died at her home in
Rock Creek,
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...
, on November 3, 2022, at the age of 93.
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''
*''Our Nation's Wetlands''
*''Sometimes It Happens''
*''How to Wreck a Building''
*''When the Sky is Like Lace''
References
1929 births
2022 deaths
20th-century American writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women
Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
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