The designer of over a thousand dust jackets throughout her long career as a commercial artist, Raskin’s mystery novels and playful illustrations have delighted young readers for decades. Additionally, Raskin is well-known for creating the original cover art for the first edition of Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time. She also wrote and illustrated 12 picture books between 19. Raskin’s own novels include The Westing Game, which won the 1979 American Library Association’s Newberry Medal for the year’s most distinguished children’s book, as well as The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel), Figgs & Phantoms, and The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues. After attending college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and majoring in fine art, Raskin began a prolific career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin-a place that went on to inform her fiction over the course of her career-Ellen Raskin grew up during the Great Depression.
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