Talk:The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

Fan comments
I LUUUUUV THIS BOOK!!!!! :-D KUDOS TO E. L. KONIGSBURG!!!!!!!♥♥♥♥

Squishedlemon616 00:51, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

This book is great!

I thought the book was OK but could be better. Great writing E.L. Konigsburg! Name:Unknown —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.243.187.121 (talk) 21:18, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I really love this book! This article, though, does not do the book justice. It needs some serious work. None of the characters besides Margaret are named, the plot skips over many crucial details, and there is no info about the writing style. I'll work on it as soon as I get a chance.68.8.173.30 (talk) 19:57, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Major revision
I agree, the book deserves better than a Stub. Three years later is finally a worthy Start! I don't know whether I shall return. Anyway, some of what I am writing into Silent to the Bone and The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World will be useful here. --P64 (talk) 20:24, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Dedicated to David K and Jean K
The Outcasts is dedicated, "This book is for David and for Jean, who cheered its conception but sadly left it an orphan before birth."

David may be husband David Konigsburg. I don't know that he is deceased but he would be in his eighties and who else would rate a mention ahead of Jean? If confirmed, his decease is matter for her biography and the dedication for a mention here.
 * Confirmed below.

Jean must be ELK's "forever editor" Jean E. Karl who died 2000-03-30. She continued editing books for Atheneum publication, freelance, until shortly before her death. Given lags, and Karl's cheers for conception of The Outcasts, it appears that she worked on the companion Silent to the Bone (2000), not necessarily as its final editor. So Outcasts seems to be ELK's first book working entirely with a new editor. If confirmed that should be noted here and in both biographies. --P64 (talk) 18:15, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * E.L. Konigsburg wrote a "35th Anniversary Afterword" (2002) to From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Quoting page [168 unnumbered]:"My beloved husband, David, to whom this [1967] book is dedicated, and Jean Karl, my stalwart editor, both loved this book from the time of its birth (see the first letter Jean wrote to me about it; it's on the next page). David died last year and Jean died the year before. Sadly, they will both miss this anniversary. And I shall miss them forever."
 * --P64 (talk) 16:46, 4 February 2012 (UTC)