Elizabeth Winthrop
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Elizabeth Winthrop is a female author whose work is largely children's fiction. She is the daughter of Stewart Alsop
Stewart Alsop
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst.Born and raised in Avon, Connecticut, Alsop attended Groton School and Yale University...

 and currently resides in New York City
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Her book The Castle in the Attic
The Castle in the Attic
The Castle in the Attic is a children's fantasy novel by Elizabeth Winthrop, first published in 1985. The novel has won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal...

was awarded the 1987 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award is an annual award for new American children's books, given in Vermont and named after Vermont author Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The winning book is chosen by the vote of Vermont schoolchildren....

. She also wrote a sequel to The Castle in the Attic
The Castle in the Attic
The Castle in the Attic is a children's fantasy novel by Elizabeth Winthrop, first published in 1985. The novel has won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal...

- The Battle for the Castle.
Theodore Roosevelt was her great great uncle.

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