Madeleine L'engle
About Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007) Madeleine L’Engle was born on November 29, 1918. Her father was a journalist and mystery writer, her mother a classical pianist. She spent her formative years in New York City, attending private schools, spent a few years as a young teen at an English boarding school in France, and finished high school in Charleston, S.C. Early on she developed a passion for writing stories, poems and journals for herself. At Smith College, she studied English and took up acting. She graduated with honors, moved to New York to work in theatre. She made space to write and published her first two novels during these years—A Small Rain and Ilsa—before meeting Hugh Franklin, a stage and later television actor and her future husband. After her first child, Madeleine and Hugh moved to Connecticut to raise the family away from the city in a small village with more cows than people. Later, they moved back to NYC with three children, where she continued writing. She was deeply shaped by her worship in the Episcopal tradition, both at St. John the Divine cathedral and at All Angels’ Church. Her seventh book, A Wrinkle in Time, became her most acclaimed, winning the 1963 Newbery Award. She went on to write over 60 books for adults, children, and teens, in a range of genres: fiction, spiritual non-fiction, memoir, and poetry. Her book Walking on Water has been a kind of bible for Christian artists. Her Crosswicks Journals explore spirituality embedded in ordinary life. A major motion picture of A Wrinkle in Time will be released this March.
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