Children's author Elizabeth Enright

Factual Questions
1

Elizabeth Enright wrote some of my favourite children’s books - The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five and Spiderweb for Two. Her other famous ones included Thimble Summer, Gone-Away Lake, and Return to Gone-Away.

Someone once told me that she committed suicide. All I could find online is that she died in 1968, but not how.

Can anyone confirm or deny the suicide thing? What’s the story?

Thanks in advance.

2

Enright died on June 9, 1968 (coincidentally, the day I was born). The NY Times obituary the following day says that she “died in her sleep at her home… after a short illness.” I did a pretty good search of the online newspaper archives and didn’t find a single article suggesting that this might actually have been a suicide.