It''s the birthday of children's author, E. L. Konigsburg, born Elaine Lobl, in New York City (1930), the first author to have two titles on the list for the Newbery Medal. She won her first for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967), about two children who run away from home and hide out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She won it again in 1997 for The View From Saturday.