Elinor Lander Horwitz
Encyclopedia
Elinor Lander Horwitz is an American author
of young adult and adult books. She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
and the mother-in-law of journalist and author Geraldine Brooks.
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
of young adult and adult books. She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Personal life
Horwitz is the mother of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony HorwitzTony Horwitz
Tony Horwitz is an American journalist and writer. His works include Blue Latitudes or Into the Blue, One for the Road, Confederates In The Attic, Baghdad Without A Map, and A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. His next book Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked...
and the mother-in-law of journalist and author Geraldine Brooks.
Selected works
- The Strange Story of the Frog Who Became a Prince (1971)
- The Soothsayer's Handbook: A Guide to Bad Signs & Good Vibrations (1972)
- Communes in America: The Place Just Right (1972)
- Capital Punishment, U.S.A. (1973)
- Mountain People, Mountain Crafts (1974)
- Contemporary American Folk Artists (1975)
- A Child's Garden of Sculpture: Photographed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution (1976)
- The Bird, the Banner, and Uncle Sam: Images of America in Folk and Popular Art (1976)
- Madness, Magic, and Medicine: The Treatment and Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (1977)
- On the Land: The Evolution of American Agriculture (1980)
- Sometimes It Happens (1981)
- How to Wreck a Building (1982)
- When the Sky Is Like Lace (1987)