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Valenda Newell
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Madeleine L'Engle
Nov 29, 1918 – Sep 6, 2007
About
BORN
November 29, 1918
DIED
September 6, 2007
Obituary
Madeleine L'Engle, born on Nov 29, 1918 in New York, NY, passed away on Sep 06, 2007 in Litchfield, CT.
Obituary
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Author Madeleine L'Engle, whose novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has been enjoyed by generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88.
L'Engle died Thursday at a nursing home in Litchfield of natural causes, according to Jennifer Doerr, publicity manager for publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The Newbery Medal winner wrote more than 60 books, including fantasies, poetry and memoirs, often highlighting spiritual themes and her Christian faith.
Although L'Engle was often labeled a children's author, she disliked that classification. In a 1993 Associated Press interview, she said she did not write down to children.
"In my dreams, I never have an age," she said. "I never write for any age group in mind. When people do, they tend to be tolerant and condescending and they don't write as well as they can write.
"When you underestimate your audience, you're cutting yourself off from your best work."
"A Wrinkle in Time" — which L'Engle said was rejected repeatedly before it found a publisher in 1962 — won the American Library Association's 1963 Newbery Medal for best American children's book. Her "A Ring of Endless Light" was a Newbery Honor Book, or medal runner-up, in 1981.
In 2004, President Bush awarded her a National Humanities Medal.
"Wrinkle" tells the story of adolescent Meg Murry, her genius little brother Charles Wallace, and their battle against evil as they search across the universe for their missing father, a scientist.
L'Engle followed it up with further adventures of the Murry children, including "A Wind in the Door," 1973; "A Swiftly Tilting Planet," 1978, which won an American Book Award; and "Many Waters," 1986.
Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press
Guest Book
The world lost an eloquent writer.
Rosemarie Iwasa
February 09, 2014 | Cleveland, OH
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Madeleine L'Engle, my favorite author, her works were encourgaging and strengthened me during trials in my life. I read "A Wrinkle In Time" over and over till this cover came off. I was the kid who read with a flashlight in bed. Her writing taught me to be strong and never quit. I grew to love reading even more and came to enjoy writing as well. I even wrote a paper in highschool about her. No one could ever fill her shoes, we can only strive to fill our own.
Eva Simon
December 08, 2013 | Springfield (St. Louis As A , MO
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I was never much of a reader when I was young but had two teachers that read to the class in grade school. My 4th grade teacher read us the "Little House on the Prarie" books and my 5th grade teacher started reading "A Wrinkle in Time". The rest of the class didn't like the book but for me it was magical! He stated reading something else instead but I began to read "A wrinkle in Time" and have never stopped reading since. I have probably read several thousand books and "A Wrinkle in Time"...
Diane Lehmann
October 19, 2010 | Gig Harbor, WA
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Thank you for making me a lifelong reader!
Julie Sprinkle
August 07, 2010 | Lithia, FL
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I grew up in Goshen, Connecticut and remember when Hugh Franklin and Madeleine bought the small general store, and the excited buzz around town. I remember looking with wonder at the woman I was told was a famous author and her actor husband. I was probably 12 or 13 at the time, just starting high school. In my mind I always see her as an older woman; I have only just discovered that she was probably only in her mid-30s!! It's as close as I've ever come to someone who eventually became one...
Lois Taitague
January 05, 2010 | Limerick, ME
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What a gift to give a childhood memory- I can still smell the pages and binding of the book as I traveled through time; Charles Wallace, the "tesseract", and Camazotz... Now the spelling might be off in my older years, but not the clear images Ms. L'Engle painted for me from those summer days of girlhood, reeling in the joys of reading, reading, reading... Camilla, Meet the Austins, The Moon by Night....what a wonderful list. Thank you for the pleasure of your company!
Your talent will...
Eileen Whittingham
December 05, 2009 | Pompano Beach, FL
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Madeleine has been one of my all time favorite authors for as long as I can remember. Like so many others here, I first encountered her through "A Wrinkle in Time". I had read a few of her other books when I found out that there were more books in the Time trilogy, which I made sure to get hold of at the very first opportunity. I have a copy of the trilogy on my bookshelf and have read these and many other of her books to my children over the years, and they have read many of these books...
Jim Shaver
October 02, 2009 | Lemon Grove, CA
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cindy cundiff
April 26, 2009 | Rockhouse, KY
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