Biography
Elizabeth Frengel’s research interests are in the decorated book arts, book illustration and book history. She is currently curating a show on paper marbling titled “Bibliomania: The Whole Art of Marbling,” which will be on view January through April 2019 at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She is also working on a book on the development of pictorial endpapers, which will feature case studies of paratextual endpapers that are integral to the textual narratives that they envelop. The project is under consideration at Oak Knoll Press. Past exhibitions at Yale University include “+ The Art of Collaboration: The Children’s Books of Russell and Lillian Hoban,” and “Under the Covers: A Visual History of Decorated Endpapers.” Elizabeth wrote an essay on Ludwig Bemelmans that was included in Story Time: Essays on American Children’s Literature from the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection (New Haven: Yale University, 2016). In her spare time, Elizabeth enjoys marbling paper and collecting children’s books for her personal library.
