Madeline L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle, born 1918, is a writer who comforts and challenges her readers. She is the daughter of artists-her father was a writer and her mother a pianist.
They lived in New York for most of her early childhood, moving when she was 12 to France and Switzerland.
L'Engle was an avid reader, particularly fond of L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, and George MacDonald. She graduated from Smith College and took an apartment in Greenwich Village with two friends. It was here that she dabbled in the theater and met her husband.
The couple moved to Connecticut where she began both a family and her writing career. She mostly wrote short stories, though she published a few novels during this time. It wasn't until the family moved back to New York and her husband resumed his acting career that her writing career truly launched. She became interested in quantum physics, an interest that led her to write A Wrinkle in Time, for which she won a Newbery award.
L'Engle has also won a Margaret A. Edwards Award and a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
From that time on she became a prolific and popular novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and public speaker.
Bibliography
Vigneras |
Children's Fiction |
The Small Rain |
Miracle on 10 th Street |
Prelude |
The Other Dog |
A Severed Wasp |
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General Fiction |
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Austin Family |
18 Washington Square |
Meet the Austins |
The Small Rain |
A Moon By Night |
Ilsa |
The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas |
A Winter's Love |
The Young Unicorns |
The Love Letters |
The Anti-Muffins |
The Other Side of the Sun |
A Ring of Endless Light |
A Severed Wasp |
Troubling a Star |
Certain Women |
A Full House: An Austin Family Christmas |
A Live Coal in the Sea |
Murray Family |
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A Wrinkle in Time |
Religious Works |
A Wind in the Door |
The Genesis Trilogy |
A Swiftly Tilting Planet |
And It Was Good |
A Stone for a Pillow |
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O'Keefe Family |
Sold Into Egypt |
The Arm of the Starfish |
The Rock that is Higher |
Dragons in the Waters |
Penguins and Golden Calves |
A House Like a Lotus |
Bright Evening Star |
Many Waters |
Everyday Prayers |
An Acceptable Time |
Prayers for Sunday |
Anytime Prayers |
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Crosswicks Journal |
Mothers and Daughters |
A Circle of Quiet |
Mothers and Sons |
The Summer of the Great Grandmother |
Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends |
The Irrational Season |
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Two-Part Invention |
Poetry |
Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems |
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Young Adult Fiction |
The Risk of Birth |
And Both Were Young |
The Weather of the Heart |
Camilla Dickinson |
A Cry Like a Bell |
A Full House |
Wintersong |
