Elizabeth Enright (September 17, 1909 — June 8, 1968) was an American children's author and illustrator. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Her father, Walter J. Enright, was a political cartoonist; her mother, Maginel Wright Enright, was a book and magazine illustrator and the younger sister of renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
In her later life, Maginel also was a shoe designer for Capezio, and she wrote a memoir of her mother's ...
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Elizabeth Enright (September 17, 1909 — June 8, 1968) was an American children's author and illustrator. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Her father, Walter J. Enright, was a political cartoonist; her mother, Maginel Wright Enright, was a book and magazine illustrator and the younger sister of renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
In her later life, Maginel also was a shoe designer for Capezio, and she wrote a memoir of her mother's family, The Valley of the God-Almighty Joneses. The Enrights divorced after World War I, when Elizabeth was still a child; her mother remarried and thereafter was known as Maginel Wright Barney.
Enright studied at the Art Students League of New York in 1927-28, and at the Parsons School of Design. Like her mother, Enright began a career in illustration for magazines and children's books; she illustrated Marion King's Kees in 1930, and Nellie Marie Rowe's The Crystal Locket in 1935. As her career progressed, she shifted her focus primarily to...
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