Facts about Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L’Engle died at 88 years old
Born: November 29, 1918
Died: September 6, 2007
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Best known as: The author of A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L’Engle Biography
Madeleine L’Engle won the Newbery Medal for children’s literature in 1963 for her novel A Wrinkle in Time, a fantasy story of trans-dimensional derring-do underlaid with religious and philosophical themes.
A graduate of Smith College (1941), L’Engle published her first novel in 1945. After her second novel was published, she married actor Hugh Franklin in 1946. They were married until he died in 1986.
L’Engle wrote several novels, some for children and some for adults, as well as short stories, poems and memoirs.
A Wrinkle in Time was the first of a series of novels that is called The Time Quintet, and includes A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), Many Waters (1986) and An Acceptable Time (1989).