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Authors: Elizabeth Enright
Elizabeth Enright
(1909â1968) was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent most of her life in or around New York City. Originally envisioning a career solely in illustration, she studied art in Paris, France, and at the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. In 1937, her first book was published, quickly proving her talent for writing as well as for drawing.
Throughout her life,
Elizabeth Enright
wrote and illustrated numerous award-winning children's books. Among those awards were the 1939 John Newbery Medal for
Thimble Summer
and a 1958 Newbery Honor for
Gone-Away Lake.
The first of the Melendy Quartet,
The Saturdays,
was published in 1941. It was followed by
The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five,
and
Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze.
Ms. Enright was also a highly regarded writer of short stories published in magazines, such as the
New Yorker
and
Harper's.
Her stories are assembled in four collections:
A Moment Before the Rain, Borrowed Summer, The Riddle of the Fly,
and
Doublefields.
Translated into numerous languages throughout the world, Ms. Enright's writings have been loved by many generations, and they continue to find an audience with young and old alike. You can sign up for email updates
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SPIDERWEB FOR TWO. Copyright © 1951 by Elizabeth Enright Gillham. Copyright renewed © 1979 by Nicholas W. Gillham, Robert Gillham II, and Oliver Gillham. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address Square Fish, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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First published in hardcover in 1951 by Rinehart & Co.
Reissued in hardcover in 2002 by Henry Holt and Company, with an introduction by Elizabeth Enright from
The Melendy Family,
copyright © 1947.
First Square Fish Edition: February 2008
Square Fish logo designed by Filomena Tuosto
eISBN 9781250102867
First eBook edition: October 2015