From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenwiler is a novel written by E. L. Konigsburg and published in 1967. It follows two children-12-year-old Claudia Kincaid and her brother Jamie-as they run away from home and hide out in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The children become involved in researching the past of an angel statue sold to the museum by Mrs. Basil E. Frankenwiler, whom they eventually leave the museum to go find. The novel was inspired by an article Konigsburg read about a valuable statue purchased by the museum for a tiny sum of money, and by her own ruminations on where children used to lives of ease would go if they had to live on their own. The novel won the Newbery Medal in 1968, beating runner-up Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth-which was also written by Konigsburg. Konigsburg remains the only author to ever receive two Newbery Honors in the same year.