Elinor Lander Horwitz

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

1. "Biography: Elinor Lander Horwitz". scholastic.com.
2. "Outstanding Books". The New York Times. November 3, 1974.
3. Horwitz, Elinor Lander Contemporary American Folk Artists. Lippincott. ISBN 0397316275. p. 143.