Ellen Raskin was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, illustrator, children's writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 13, 1928
- Died
- August 8, 1984