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Worth Quoting (Interviews): Elaine L. Konigsburg

Worth Quoting was made possible by Florida Community College at Jacksonville. The series was recorded from 1985 to 2005, and features a powerful collection of interviews.
Interviewee Elaine L. Konigsburg
Interviewer N/A
Subject Creative process

Copyright 1986 Florida Community College at Jacksonville

Summary: Local author Elaine L. Konigsburg, most famous for her Newberry award winning novel From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, gives a wide-ranging talk that uses T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as a springboard to discuss how three famous men who dared disturb the universe- Galileo, Newton, and Einstein - embody different elements of the creative process and how her own creative process works.

Keywords: Elaine L. Konigsburg, E.L. Konigsburg, T.S. Eliot, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, creative process, creativity, lecture (education)

 

Elaine L. Konigsburg

Konigsburg, E. (1986). Interviewed by N/A [Video Recording]. Worth Quoting. YouTube, Jacksonville, Florida.

Run time: 42 minutes