About+the+Author



Ellen Raskin was born in March 13,1928. She was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1945, Ellen Raskin was 17 and decided to enter college and attended the University of Wisconsin Madison. She majored in journalism, and when visiting the Chicago art of Institute, changed her major to Fine Arts classes. Over the years she started she wrote, illustrated, and designed books for children. In 1979 she won the Newbery Medal for the Westing Game. Raskin's favorite was Figgs and Phantoms which also won a Newbery Medal in 1975. She married a man named Dennis Flanagan. On August 8, 1984 Ellen Raskin passed away because of connective tissue-disease.