Which author won both a Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in 1968?

E. L. Konigsburg won the Newbery Medal and received a Newbery Honor in 1968.

Konigsburg won the 1968 Medal for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, a novel about siblings Claudia and Jamie Kincaid, who run away to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book combines mystery, independence, and questions about art and identity.

In the same award year, her debut novel, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, was named a Newbery Honor. Both books had been published in 1967, and the unusual double recognition made Konigsburg the only author to win the Medal and have another book honored in the same year.

Konigsburg later won a second Medal in 1997 for The View from Saturday. That makes her one of the small group of authors with two Newbery Medals, while her 1968 double recognition remains a separate piece of Newbery history.