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Madeleine L'Engle

Born

in New York City, New York, The United States

November 29, 1918

Died

September 06, 2007

Website

http://www.madeleinelengle.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Biographies & Memoirs

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Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her young adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters. Her works reflect her strong interest in modern science: tesseracts, for example, are featured prominently in A Wrinkle in Time, mitochondrial DNA in A Wind in the Door, organ regeneration in The Arm of the Starfish, and so forth.

"Madeleine was born on November 29th, 1918, and spent her formative years in New York City. Instead of her school work, she found that she would much rather be writing stories, poems and journals for herself, which was reflected in her grades (not the best). However, she was not discouraged.

At age 12, ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 1,702,093 ratings · 64,001 reviews · 206 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 1,170,896 ratings — published 1962 — 380 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, #2) by Madeleine L'Engle, Jody A. Lee (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125,888 ratings — published 1973 — 134 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3) by Madeleine L'Engle, Jody A. Lee (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 107,439 ratings — published 1978 — 119 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Many Waters (Time Quintet, #4) 3.97 avg rating — 46,868 ratings — published 1986 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Acceptable Time (Time Quintet, #5) 3.80 avg rating — 21,955 ratings — published 1989 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4) 4.17 avg rating — 19,224 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time Quartet Box Set (Time Quartet, #1-4) 4.35 avg rating — 11,045 ratings — published 1989 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet the Austins (Austin Family Chronicles, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 10,066 ratings — published 1960 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L'Engle, Nichole Nordeman (Foreword) 4.23 avg rating — 9,150 ratings — published 1980 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arm of the Starfish (O'Keefe Family, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 9,984 ratings — published 1965 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Madeleine L'Engle

Time Quintet (5 books)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,496,248 ratings

Kairos (8 books)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,492,359 ratings

Austin Family Chronicles (5 books)
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3.96 avg rating — 51,138 ratings

O'Keefe Family (4 books)
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3.80 avg rating — 41,335 ratings

Crosswicks Journals (4 books)
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4.21 avg rating — 15,106 ratings

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November 2014 New School Classics Poll

1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages

21 votes, 15.2%

1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages

19 votes, 13.8%

1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 291 pages

14 votes, 10.1%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages

13 votes, 9.4%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

11 votes, 8.0%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages

10 votes, 7.2%

1998, The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 546 pages

9 votes, 6.5%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, 198 pages

8 votes, 5.8%

1993, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages

7 votes, 5.1%

1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages

7 votes, 5.1%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

5 votes, 3.6%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1939, How Green Was My Valleyby Richard Llewellyn, 448 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, 128 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1966, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 176 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

138 total votes

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