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Elizabeth Winthrop(born September 14, 1948), also known asElizabeth Winthrop Alsop, is an American writer, the author of more than sixty published books, primarily children's fiction. She is best known for the classic middle-grade novel,The Castle in the Atticand its sequelThe Battle for the Castlewhich have been nominated for 23 state book awards and are considered children's classics.

Elizabeth Winthrop was born in Washington, D.C. She is a daughter of the newspaper columnist and political analyst Stewart Alsop and one of her siblings is investor and pundit Stewart Alsop II. Her uncle was Joseph Alsop. Her grandfather was Joseph Alsop IV (1876–1953) married to Corinne Douglas Robinson (1886–1971). She is a great grandniece of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and first-cousin twice removed to Eleanor Roosevelt. Her great-grandmother was Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.