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Up From Jericho Tel

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by E. L. Konigsburg


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  This is what E. L. Konigsburg has to say about writing Up From Jericho Tel:

  “When I was a senior at Carnegie-Mellon University, the drama department decided to put on a production of Hamlet. For many years they had not felt there was a student actor good enough to play the difficult title role, so they had not put on this Shakespeare play for a long, long time. But now they had a young man whom everyone on the faculty believed to be greatly talented—strong enough, as they say, to take on Hamlet. I went to see it. I thought the production was wonderful, and I thought the young actor was very good. (At the time, I thought that anyone who could get through the soliloquy, “To be, or not to be . . . ” without cracking up was a genius.)

  “Fast-forward now a few years. I was living in the suburbs of New York City and taking in as much of Broadway as I could afford. I kept looking for the young man’s name on every marquee of every theater, for I fully expected his name to come up in lights, above the title, as they say. It never did, and up to this day, it never has. I wondered why. What was missing? What makes an actor a star? Talent, certainly. Timing—being the right person in the right place at the right time—yes. And something else.

  “It was my desire to explore that something else that prompted me to write Up From Jericho Tel. I won’t tell you what the something else is—you’ll have to read the book to find out—and I won’t tell you the name of that Hamlet actor, but I will mention a few of the fine-arts graduates of Carnegie-Mellon who are stars. In alphabetical order: Steven Bochco, Ted Danson, Holly Hunter, Jack Klugman, Ann Roth (costume designer for The Birdcage, The English Patient, etc.), Sada Thompson. They all have something and something else.”

  E. L. KONIGSBURG is the author of several books for young readers, including the Newbery Medal winners From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and The View from Saturday, and the Newbery Honor Book Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. Mrs. Konigsburg has a degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and has done graduate work in organic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. Before becoming a writer, she taught science at a private girls’ school. She and her husband live on the beach in North Florida. Their three children are all married.

 

 

 


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