Madeleine L'Engle

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Madeleine L'Engle


Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
November 29, 1918

Died
September 06, 2007

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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,
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Average rating: 4.0 · 1,702,093 ratings · 64,001 reviews · 206 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Qui...

3.98 avg rating — 1,170,896 ratings — published 1962 — 380 editions
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A Wind in the Door (Time Qu...

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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (T...

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4.08 avg rating — 107,439 ratings — published 1978 — 119 editions
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Many Waters (Time Quintet, #4)

3.97 avg rating — 46,868 ratings — published 1986 — 84 editions
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An Acceptable Time (Time Qu...

3.80 avg rating — 21,955 ratings — published 1989 — 55 editions
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A Ring of Endless Light (Au...

4.17 avg rating — 19,224 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions
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The Time Quartet Box Set (T...

4.35 avg rating — 11,045 ratings — published 1989 — 9 editions
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Meet the Austins (Austin Fa...

3.87 avg rating — 10,066 ratings — published 1960 — 34 editions
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Walking on Water: Reflectio...

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4.23 avg rating — 9,150 ratings — published 1980 — 26 editions
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The Arm of the Starfish (O'...

3.86 avg rating — 9,984 ratings — published 1965 — 35 editions
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A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters An Acceptable Time
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A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters The Arm of the Starfish Dragons in the Waters A House Like a Lotus
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Meet the Austins The Moon by Night The Young Unicorns A Ring of Endless Light Troubling a Star
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The Arm of the Starfish Dragons in the Waters A House Like a Lotus An Acceptable Time
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A Circle of Quiet The Summer of the Great-Gra... The Irrational Season Two-Part Invention: The Sto...
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
Madeleine L'Engle

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
Madeleine L'Engle

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

Polls

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%

 
  14 votes, 10.1%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages
 
  13 votes, 9.4%

 
  11 votes, 8.0%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages
 
  10 votes, 7.2%

 
  9 votes, 6.5%

 
  8 votes, 5.8%

 
  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%

 
  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%

 
  2 votes, 1.4%

 
  2 votes, 1.4%

 
  1 vote, 0.7%

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