Jean E. Karl
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1927 – 2000
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Who was Jean E. Karl?
Jean Edna Karl was an American book editor who specialized in children's and science fiction titles. She founded and led the children's division and young adult and science fiction imprints at Atheneum Books, where she oversaw or edited books that won two Caldecott Medals and five Newbery Medals. One of the Newberys went to the new writer E. L. Konigsburg in 1968 for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
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- Born
- Jul 29, 1927
Chicago - Also known as
- Jean Karl
- Education
- Mount Union College
- Died
- Mar 30, 2000
Lancaster
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on July 23, 2013
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