“A Wrinkle In Time” rejected 26 times

One of my favourite books, A Wrinkle In Time, was apparently rejected more than 26 times. Author Madeleine L’Engle had more than two dozen publishers reject the story before Farrar, Straus and Giroux finally published it in 1962. It received the Newbery Medal in 1963.

At the time of the author’s death in 2007, the book had sold more than eight million copies and had entered its 69th printing.

Before A Wrinkle In Time was published, L’Engle had accumulated far more rejections than acceptances for