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She wrote more than 60 books, the most famous of which is A Wrinkle In Time , winner of the Newbery Award in She also wrote the famous series featuring the Austin family, beginning with the novel Meet The Austins L'Engle revisited the Austins four more times over the next three decades, concluding with Troubling a Star in The story of the Austins had some autobiographical elements, mirroring Madeleine's life and the life of her family.

Madeleine L'Engle's last book, The Joys of Love , is a romantic, coming-of-age story she wrote back in the s. The above represents the biographical information provided by the publisher for the most recent book by this author that BookBrowse has covered. When kings fall, queens rise. Book Club Giveaway! Read the Reviews. Your guide to exceptional books BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

Newsletter Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info and giveaways by email. She continued her interest in writing throughout her school years, and used her hobby to combat the loneliness she often felt. In fifth grade, L'Engle won her first poetry contest. The teacher accused her of plagiarizing the poem, though, stating flatly that L'Engle wasn't bright enough to have written it.

Her mother intervened, bringing the teacher a stack of L'Engle's poems and stories from home. The following year, her parents sent her to a new school, Todhunter, where her teacher, Margaret Clapp, encouraged her love of reading and writing. Years later, Clapp became the first woman president of Wellesley College. During the winter of to , Charles Camp developed pneumonia and his doctors encouraged him to leave New York as soon as he recovered.

The family moved to Switzerland, and L'Engle was sent to Chatelard, a girls' boarding school in Montreaux, Switzerland. At Chatelard, she and a friend experimented with dream states as inspiration for writing. The two girls had read about poppies and opium in books and learned that the flower would enhance their dreams. So, they planted poppies, ate them in sandwiches, and kept their dream journals at their bedsides.

When L'Engle was 14, her grandmother, Dearma, became seriously ill and the Camps moved to Florida to be with her. She was an active student, participating in plays and serving on the student council. From to , she served as student council president. Earlier in , her father died. L'Engle graduated from Ashley Hall the following June. In the fall, she attended Smith College, majoring in English.

As the author herself noted in the About the Author website, "I took an apartment in Greenwich Village with three other girls, two of whom were aspiring actresses. Because I wanted to be a writer, I was the lucky one to get jobs in the theater I thought it was an excellent school for writers and it is. While there, she acted on Broadway and wrote her first novel, The Small Rain At Smith College , a fellowship is available in L'Engle's name to visit and use the special collections available there.

This fund provides stipends to support travel by researchers—from novices to advanced, award-winning scholars—to explore the resources available in the Smith College Archives , Mortimer Rare Book Collection , and Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History. Since , Wheaton College in Illinois has maintained a special collection of L'Engle's papers, and a variety of other materials, dating back to They had been donated by her literary estate.

Most of L'Engle's novels from A Wrinkle in Time onward are centered on a cast of recurring characters, who sometimes reappear decades older than when they were first introduced. L'Engle wrote about both generations concurrently, with Polly originally spelled Poly first appearing in , well before the second book about her parents as teenagers A Wind in the Door , The "Chronos" books center on Vicky Austin and her siblings.

Although Vicky's appearances all occur during her childhood and teenage years, her sister Suzy also appears as an adult in A Severed Wasp , with a husband and teenage children. In addition, two of L'Engle's early protagonists, Katherine Forrester and Camilla Dickinson, reappear as elderly women in later novels. Rounding out the cast are several characters "who cross and connect": Canon Tallis , Adam Eddington , and Zachary Gray , who each appear in both the Kairos and Chronos books.

In addition to novels and poetry, L'Engle wrote many nonfiction works, including the autobiographical Crosswicks Journals and other explorations of the subjects of faith and art. For L'Engle, who wrote repeatedly about "story as truth", the distinction between fiction and memoir was sometimes blurred. Real events from her life and family history made their way into some of her novels, while fictional elements, such as assumed names for people and places, can be found in her published journals.

Note: some ISBNs given are for later paperback editions, since no such numbering existed when L'Engle's earlier titles were published in hardcover. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools.

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Religious beliefs [ edit ]. Later years, death, and legacy [ edit ]. Awards, honors, and organizations [ edit ]. The Madeleine L'Engle Collection [ edit ]. Bibliographic overview [ edit ]. Main article: Major characters in the works of Madeleine L'Engle. Works [ edit ]. Novels for young adults [ edit ]. Novels [ edit ]. Children's books [ edit ].

Short stories [ edit ]. Poems [ edit ]. Plays [ edit ]. Non-fiction [ edit ]. Adaptations [ edit ]. Notes [ edit ]. The events in each of these stories take place prior to the events of Meet the Austins. From to in National Book Award history , there were dual awards for hardcover and paperback books in many categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including this one.

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