Today I happened to pick up an edition of The Mixed-Up Files with a 35th anniversary afterword by EL Konigsburg, in which she tells us that her daughter Laurie, on whom Claudia was based, lives on a fruit farm growing cantaloupe and watermelon. The name of her farm? The Melon Foundation.

This is nearly as good as the time I was told Prof Nohrnberg’s son had a high school baseball team called The Sliding Signifiers.