Konigsburg is the author of many children’s books, some including "The Outcast of 19 Schuyler Place, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," and "Silent to the Bone". She began her career as an author later in her life. She left teaching after the birth of her first child in 1955, and returned to teach again in 1960. She stopped teaching again two years later, to move to New York for her husband’s job. With all of her kids at school, she had time to begin her writing career.