Madeleine L’Engle
Author Madeleine L’Engle died last night in Connecticut, at the age of 89. Best known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, L’Engle was the author of more than 60 books for adults and young readers, most of which were published by FSG. This spring, the Square Fish imprint of Holtzbrinck reissued L'Engle's Time Quintet in new editions.
Friday, September 07, 2007
Madeleine L'Engle dies
Sad news from PW Daily just now
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Madeleine L’Engle was a master of subtle mythological and theological allusion.
The Time books are fun, slightly disturbing in places, and have an honored place on my bookshelves.
That is one of the books on my Newbery list that I wanted to read very soon (after Number the Stars I am going to read A Wrinkle in Time).
I remember reading Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine a while back to my children. I loved the book, and googled the author to see if she had written other books. She died in the 1980s. I felt sad for a while after that-a strange kind of melancholy that she had written a beautiful book which outsurvived her.
I'm still trying to get my kids to read A Wrinkle In Time. I read it when I was a teenager, and read it again only a couple of years ago. It'll always be a favourite.
How I loved A Wrinkle In Time a hundred years ago. Godspeed, Madeleine.
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