Madeleine L'Engle

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• Born: 29 November 1918
• Birthplace: New York, New York
• Died: 6 September 2007
• Best Known As: The author of A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1963 for her novel A Wrinkle in Time, a story of trans-dimensional derring-do. She wrote several other novels for children, many of which involved the same cast of characters in science-based, philosophical adventures.

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American fiction writer Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) was the accomplished author of numerous plays, poems, novels, and autobiographies for children and adults. She is perhaps best known for her children's book, "A Wrinkle in Time", written in 1962 and winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal for Children's Literature. Two later works, "A Wind in the Door" and "A Swiftly Tilting Planet", continue the theme and form a trilogy about time.

Donald R. Hettinga, in Presenting Madeleine L'Engle, wrote of the author: "Her vocation is that of storyteller and story itself is part of her story." As a young girl, L'Engle used writing to make sense of things. "Her fiction, while not rigidly autobiographical as, for example, Ernest Hemingway's, " Hettinga continued, "is yet informed and sometimes shaped by the experiences of her life."

Influenced by Artistic Parents

Madeleine L'Engle Camp was born November 29, 1918, in New York, New York, the only child of artistic parents who fed her imagination and encouraged her creativity. She was named for her great grandmother, who was also named Madeleine L'Engle but went by the nickname Mado. L'Engle's father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, arrived home from World War I when Madeleine was less than a year old. He had been a newspaper reporter-a drama and music critic for the Herald-Evening Sun-but his lungs were so damaged by mustard gas that he quit his job after the war. He then focused his energies on writing short stories, movies, and plays in his small office in New York's Flatiron building.

L'Engle's mother was a pianist. Madeleine Hall Barnett Camp was almost 40 years old when she gave birth to Madeleine. She and her husband had wanted a child for a long time, but when Madeleine finally arrived, they disagreed on how to raise her. In the end, it was a strict upbringing, replete with governesses and boarding schools.

Nannies and Boarding Schools

L'Engle spent her first years with her parents and her English nanny, Mrs. O'Connell, in a two bedroom apartment on 82nd Street in New York. The city provided many opportunities for her to experience the arts, and her parents often entertained musicians, artists and writers in the evenings. This atmosphere fostered her creativity and imagination, inspiring her to write her first story at the tender age of five. She continued her interest in writing throughout her school years, and used her hobby to combat the loneliness she often felt. "It never occurred to me that [writing] was something you were supposed to worry about, " L'Engle told Claire Whitcomb in Victoria. "You learn by doing it."

In fifth grade, L'Engle won her first poetry contest. The teacher accused her of plagiarizing the poem, though, stating flatly that L'Engle wasn't bright enough to have written it. Her mother intervened, bringing the teacher a stack of L'Engle's poems and stories from home. The following year, her parents sent her to a new school, Todhunter, where her teacher, Margaret Clapp, encouraged her love of reading and writing. Years later, Clapp became the first woman president of Wellesley College.

During the winter of 1930 to 1931, Charles Camp developed pneumonia and his doctors encouraged him to leave New York as soon as he recovered. The family moved to Switzerland, and L'Engle was sent to Chatelard, a girls' boarding school in Montreaux, Switzerland. At Chatelard, she and a friend experimented with dream states as inspiration for writing. The two girls had read about poppies and opium in books and learned that the flower would enhance their dreams. So, they planted poppies, ate them in sandwiches, and kept their dream journals at their bedsides. "While L'Engle soon determined that she did not need to eat poppies to dream, " Hettinga explained, "she does credit this experience with awakening a sensitivity to the world of the subconscious, a sensitivity that is crucial to her as a writer."

When L'Engle was 14, her grandmother, Dearma, became seriously ill and the Camps moved to Florida to be with her. That fall, L'Engle was sent to Ashley Hall Boarding School in Charleston, South Carolina. She was an active student, participating in plays and serving on the student council. From 1936 to 1937, she served as student council president. Earlier in 1936, her father died. L'Engle graduated from Ashley Hall the following June. In the fall, she attended Smith College, majoring in English.

Writer Takes Up Acting

Following her graduation with honors from Smith in June of 1941, L'Engle returned to New York City and worked as an actress. As the author herself noted in the About the Author website, "I took an apartment in Greenwich Village with three other girls, two of whom were aspiring actresses. Because I wanted to be a writer, I was the lucky one to get jobs in the theater (I thought it was an excellent school for writers and it is)." L'Engle enjoyed New York. While there, she acted on Broadway and wrote her first novel, The Small Rain (1945). She also met a man who would have a great impact on her life while acting in Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. He was actor Hugh Franklin. Around this time, L'Engle had several of her plays produced, including 18 Washington Square, South: A Comedy in One Act (1940) and How Now Brown Cow (1949).

Marriage, Children, and Crosswicks

On January 26, 1946, during Franklin's tour with The Joyous Season, the two were married in Chicago, Illinois, in a spur-of-the-moment ceremony with just two friends present as witnesses. The following spring, they purchased a 200-year-old farmhouse near Goshen, Connecticut. As they were renovating the house, they talked about starting a family. In June of 1947, L'Engle gave birth to a daughter, Josephine. For several years after, they spent their summers at the Connecticut home they called Crosswicks, and their winters in New York.

Franklin had continued to tour with acting companies, often being away most of the year. When L'Engle became pregnant again in 1951, however, Franklin decided to get a job near Crosswicks and the family moved there permanently. On March 24, 1952, their son, Bion, was born. Franklin still hadn't found a job, but the General Store in Goshen was up for sale. The young family bought it, and began handling both mail and groceries for the small town.

In 1956, L'Engle and Franklin adopted a friend's seven-year old daughter, Maria. The friend had passed away that November, one year after her husband's death. The Franklin family was thus completed. When all the children were off at school, L'Engle began to write Meet the Austins, a book inspired by her own family. The work was to be one of the first of a successful series for L'Engle. Meet the Austins even earned its place on the list of the American Library Association's Notable Children's books of 1960. Additional titles in the series included The Moon by Night (1963), The Twenty-Four Days before Christmas: An Austin Family Story (1964), The Young Unicorns (1968), and A Ring of Endless Light (1980).

A New Wrinkle, A New Direction

By 1959, the family was ready for a change. They sold the General Store and opted to again use Crosswicks as a summer home and return to New York for the winter months. First off, though, they took a ten-week camping trip. During this vacation, L'Engle got some ideas for a new book. She jotted them down, and as soon as she got back to Crosswicks, she began writing. The result was her classic novel for young adults, A Wrinkle in Time. The fantasy world of the book included time travel and a heroine with extrasensory perception (ESP).

L'Engle was discouraged when the book was rejected by 26 publishers, but she kept sending out her manuscript. Finally, the work was purchased by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and published in 1962. The book was a great success, winning several honors, including the Newbery Medal, the American Library Association's Notable Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Runner-up Award. Writing in A Critical History of Children's Literature, Ruth Hill Viguers called A Wrinkle in Time a " book that combines devices of fairy tales, overtones of fantasy, the philosophy of great lives, the visions of science, and the warmth of a good family story…. It is an exuberant book, original, vital, exciting. Funny ideas, fearful images, amazing characters, and beautiful concepts sweep through it. And it is full of truth." Three sequels, A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), and Many Waters (1986) formed what is popularly known as the Time Fantasy Trilogy.

Hugh Franklin began acting again soon after the sale of the store, eventually settling into the role of Dr. Charles Tyler on the television program All My Children. L'Engle continued to write, more prolific than ever, and broadened her scope to nonfiction and religion. Franklin's death in 1986 inspired a book about her life with him, Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage, published in 1988. Other works from around this period included Dragons in the Waters (1976) and A House like a Lotus (1984), both sequels to L'Engle's 1965 volume The Aim of the Star Fish. L'Engle also wrote several collections of poetry, such as The Weather of the Heart (1978) and Cry like a Bell (1978). In 1982, she published a sequel to The Small Rain, called A Severed Wasp.

L'Engle served as writer in residence at Victoria magazine in 1995. At the beginning of her residence there, Whitcomb interviewed her at Crosswicks, reporting that L'Engle was the "centerpiece of a very extended family." In addition to her three children and five grandchildren, L'Engle had 19 godchildren with whom she keeps in close contact. She also served as writer-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, where she had also been a librarian for over 30 years.

In 1998, L'Engle received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, sponsored by the School Library Journal, in honor of her lifetime contribution to adolescent literature. On the "Tesseract" website, Jeri Baker, chair of the Edwards Award Committee noted, "L'Engle tells stories that uniquely blend scientific principles and the quest for higher meaning. Basic to her philosophy of writing is the belief that 'story' helps individuals live courageously and creatively."

L'Engle continued to write and to lecture, teaching writing workshops at universities and churches. Her works in the 1990s include The Glorious Impossible (1990), Certain Women (1992), Troubling a Star (1994), A Live Coal in the Sea (1996), and Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols (1996). L'Engle also wrote on religious topics, publishing such works as Sold into Egypt: Joseph's Journey into Human Being (1989), Anytime Prayers (1994), Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections (1996), and Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation (1997). In 1997, L'Engle released Friends for the Journey: Two Extraordinary Women Celebrate Friendship and Mothers and Daughters.

"It's a full life she draws on-ranging from her days as a young actress to those as a Connecticut mother with a houseful of young children, " commented Catherine Calvert in Victoria. "[Hers is] a life informed by unabashed optimism and faith in humankind and steadied by a strong religious sense." Her continued popularity as an author is evidence of her ability to entertain both young readers and adults. "L'Engle's writing could well be called timeless rather than timely, " noted Marygail G. Parker in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. "Her warm portraits of caring families, her fervent belief in the dignity and creativity of each individual, and her sense of the universal importance of particular acts give her work a peculiar splendor."

Further Reading

Chase, Carole F., Madeleine L'Engle, Suncatcher: Spiritual Vision of a Storyteller, LuraMedia (San Diego, CA), 1995.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 52: American Writers for Children since 1960: Fiction, Gale, 1986.

Gonzales, Doreen, Madeleine L'Engle, Dillon Press, 1991.

Hettinga, Donald R., Presenting Madeleine L'Engle, Twayne, 1993.

Meigs, Cornelia, editor, A Critical History of Children's Literature, Macmillan, revised edition, 1969, p. 481.

Booklist, September 1, 1992; April 15, 1994; August 1994; May 1, 1996; May 15, 1996.

Children's Literature in Education, winter 1975; summer 1976; winter 1983; spring 1987.

Horn Book, August 1963; December 1983.

Library Journal, May 1, 1996.

People, December 7, 1992; November 28, 1994.

Victoria, January 1995, pp. 26-29.

"Madeleine L'Engle, " About the Author,http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/arcsc/collects/sc03/bio.htm (March 17, 1998).

Blocher, Karen Funk, "The Tesseract: A Madeleine L'Engle Bibliography in 5 dimensions, " http://members.aol.com/kfbofpq1/LEngl.html#bio (March 15, 1998).

Greene, Dave, "The Artist, " The Christian: A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle,http:www.windwords.org/virtual/books/lengle.html (March 17, 1998).

Quotes:

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

Madeleine L'Engle
Born	November 29, 1918(1918-11-29) New York City, New York, United States
Died	September 6, 2007 (aged 88) Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Occupation	writer
Nationality	American
Writing period	1945 – 2007
Genres	fiction, poetry, essays
Subjects	science fiction, fantasy etc.
Notable work(s)	A Wrinkle in Time and sequels
Influences George MacDonald
Official website

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007)^[1] 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, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. 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, and organ regeneration in The Arm of the Starfish.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Adulthood 2.1 Career 2.2 Later years 2.3 Religious beliefs 3 Awards, honors, and organizations 3.1 The Madeleine L'Engle Collection 4 Bibliographic overview 5 Important L'Engle characters 6 Partial list of works 6.1 Kairos 6.2 Chronos 6.3 Other fiction 6.4 The Crosswicks Journals 6.5 The Genesis Trilogy 6.6 Poetry 6.7 Religion, the arts, and more autobiography 7 Further reading 8 References 9 External links

Early life

Madeleine L'Engle Camp was born November 29, 1918 and named after her great-grandmother, Madeleine L'Engle, otherwise known as Mado.^[2] Her mother, a pianist, was also named Madeleine. Her father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a writer, a critic, and a foreign correspondent who according to his daughter suffered lung damage from exposure to mustard gas during World War I. (In a 2004 New Yorker profile of the writer, relatives of L'Engle disputed the mustard gas story, claiming instead that Camp's illness was caused by alcoholism.)

L'Engle wrote her first story at age five, and began keeping a journal at age eight.^[3] These early literary attempts did not translate into academic success at the New York City private school where she was enrolled. A shy, clumsy child, she was branded as stupid by some of her teachers. Unable to please them, she retreated into her own world of books and writing. Her parents often disagreed about how to raise her, and as a result she attended a number of boarding schools and had many governesses.^[4] They traveled frequently. At one point, the family moved to a chateau near Chamonix in the French Alps, in what Madeleine described as the hope that the cleaner air would be easier on her father's lungs. Madeleine was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland, but in 1933 the family moved to northern Florida, and she attended another boarding school, Ashley Hall, in Charleston, South Carolina. When her father died in 1935, Madeleine arrived home too late to say goodbye.^[5]

Adulthood

L'Engle attended Smith College from 1937 to 1941. After graduating cum laude from Smith^[6] she moved to an apartment in New York City. In 1942 she met actor Hugh Franklin when she appeared in the play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.^[7] L'Engle married Franklin on January 26, 1946, the year after the publication of her first novel, The Small Rain. (Later she wrote of their meeting and marriage, "We met in The Cherry Orchard and were married in The Joyous Season.")^[6] The couple's first daughter, Josephine, was born in 1947.

The family moved to a 200-year-old farmhouse called Crosswicks in rural Connecticut in 1952. To replace Franklin's lost acting income, they purchased and operated a small general store, while L'Engle continued with her writing. Their son Bion was born that same year.^[8] Four years later, seven-year-old Maria, the daughter of family friends who had died, came to live with the Franklins, and they adopted her shortly thereafter. During this period, L'Engle also served as choir director of the local Congregational Church. ^[9]

Career

In 1959 the family returned to New York City so that Hugh could resume his acting career. The move was immediately preceded by a ten-week cross-country camping trip, during which L'Engle first had the idea for her most famous novel, A Wrinkle in Time. L'Engle had completed the book by 1960, but more than two dozen publishers rejected the story before Farrar, Straus and Giroux finally published it in 1962.^[9]

In 1960 the Franklins moved to an apartment in the Cleburne Building on West End Avenue; the apartment was sold by the estate for $4 million in 2008.^[10] From 1960 to 1966 (and again in 1989 and 1990), L'Engle taught at St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School in New York. In 1965 she became a volunteer librarian at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, also in New York. She later served for many years as writer-in-residence at the Cathedral, generally spending her winters in New York and her summers at Crosswicks.

During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, L'Engle wrote dozens of books for children and adults. One of her books for adults, Two-Part Invention, was a memoir of her marriage, completed after her husband's death from cancer on September 26, 1986.

Later years

L'Engle was seriously injured in an automobile accident in 1991, but recovered well enough to visit Antarctica in 1992.^[9] Her son, Bion Franklin, died on December 17, 1999. He was forty-seven years old.

In her final years, L'Engle became unable to travel or teach, due to reduced mobility from osteoporosis, and especially after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in 2002. She also abandoned her former schedule of speaking engagements and seminars. A few compilations of older work, some of it previously unpublished, appeared after 2001.

Madeleine L'Engle died of natural causes at a nursing facility near her Connecticut home on September 6, 2007, according to a statement by her publicist the following day.^[11] She is buried in the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City, New York.

Religious beliefs

L'Engle was an Episcopalian and believed in universal salvation, writing that "All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones."^[12] As a result of her promotion of Christian universalism, many Christian bookstores refused to carry her books, which were also frequently banned from Christian schools and libraries. However, some of her most secular critics attacked her work for being too religious.^[13]

Her views on divine punishment were similar to those of George MacDonald, who also had a large influence on her fictional work. She said "I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love."^[14]

Awards, honors, and organizations

In addition to the numerous awards, medals and prizes won by individual books L'Engle wrote, she personally received many honors over the years.^[9] These included being named an Associate Dame of Justice in the Venerable Order of Saint John (1972);^[15] the USM Medallion from The University of Southern Mississippi (1978), the Smith College Award "for service to community or college which exemplifies the purposes of liberal arts education" (1981), the Sophia Award for distinction in her field (1984), the Regina Medal (1985), the ALAN Award for outstanding contribution to adolescent literature, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English (1986),^[16] and the Kerlan Award (1990).

In 1985 she was a guest speaker at the Library of Congress, giving a speech entitled "Dare to be Creative!" That same year she began a two-year term as president of the Authors Guild. In addition she received over a dozen honorary degrees from as many colleges and universities, such as Haverford College.^[17] Many of these name her as a Doctor of Humane Letters, but she was also made a Doctor of Literature and a Doctor of Sacred Theology, the latter at Berkeley Divinity School in 1984. In 1995 she was Writer in Residence for Victoria Magazine. In 2004 she received the National Humanities Medal, but could not attend the ceremony due to poor health.

The Madeleine L'Engle Collection

Since 1976, Wheaton College in Illinois has maintained a special collection of L'Engle's papers, and a variety of other materials, dating back to 1919.^[18] The Madeleine L'Engle Collection includes manuscripts for the majority of her published and unpublished works, as well as interviews, photographs, audio and video presentations, and an extensive array of correspondence with both adults and children, including artwork sent to her by children.

Bibliographic overview

L'Engle's best-known works are divided between the "Chronos" and "Kairos" frameworks.^[19] The former is the framework in which the stories of the Austin family take place, and is presented in a primarily realistic setting, though occasionally with elements that might be regarded as science fiction. The latter is the framework in which the stories of the Murry and O'Keefe families take place, and is presented sometimes in a realistic setting and sometimes in a more fantastic or magical milieu. Generally speaking, the more realistic kairos material is found in the O'Keefe stories, which deal with the second generation characters. However, the Murry-O'Keefe and Austin families should not be regarded as living in separate worlds, because several characters cross over between them, and historical events are also shared.

In addition to novels and poetry, L'Engle wrote many nonfiction works, including the autobiographical Crosswicks Journals and other explorations of the subjects of faith and art. For L'Engle, who wrote repeatedly about "story as truth," the distinction between fiction and memoir was sometimes blurred. Real events from her life and family history made their way into some of her novels, while fictional elements, such as assumed names for people and places, can be found in her published journals.^[20]

A theme often implied and occasionally explicit in L'Engle's works is that the phenomena that people call religion, science and magic are simply different aspects of a single seamless reality.

Important L'Engle characters

Main article: Major characters in the works of Madeleine L'Engle

Most of L'Engle's novels from A Wrinkle in Time onward are centered on a cast of recurring characters, who sometimes reappear decades older than when they were first introduced. The "Kairos" books are about the Murry and O'Keefe families, with Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe marrying and producing the next generation's protagonist, Polly O'Keefe. L'Engle wrote about both generations concurrently, with Polly (originally called Poly) first appearing in 1965, well before the second book about her parents as teenagers (A Wind in the Door, 1973). The "Chronos" books center on Vicky Austin and her siblings. Although Vicky's appearances all occur during her childhood and teenage years, her sister Suzy also appears as an adult in A Severed Wasp, with a husband and teenage children. In addition, two of L'Engle's early protagonists, Katherine Forrester and Camilla Dickinson, reappear as elderly women in later novels. Rounding out the cast are several characters "who cross and connect", Canon Tallis, Adam Eddington and Zachary Gray, who each appear in both the Kairos and Chronos books.^[21]

Partial list of works

Kairos

• First-generation (Murry) (Time Quartet)
  • A Wrinkle in Time (1962) (Newbery Award Winner) ISBN 0-374-38613-7
  • A Wind in the Door (1973) ISBN 0-374-38443-6
  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) ISBN 0-374-37362-0
  • Many Waters (1986) ISBN 0-374-34796-4

• Second-generation (O'Keefe)
  • The Arm of the Starfish (1965) ISBN 0-374-30396-7
  • Dragons in the Waters (1976) ISBN 0-374-31868-9
  • A House Like a Lotus (1984) ISBN 0-374-33385-8
  • An Acceptable Time (1989) ISBN 0-374-30027-5

Chronos

• Meet the Austins (1960) ISBN 0-374-34929-0
• The Moon by Night (1963) ISBN 0-374-35049-3
• The Young Unicorns (1968) ISBN 0-374-38778-8
• A Ring of Endless Light (1980) ISBN 0-374-36299-8 (Newbery Honor Book)
• The Anti-Muffins (1980) ISBN 0-82980415-3
• The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas (1984, ISBN 0-87788-843-4)
• Troubling a Star (1994) ISBN 0-374-37783-9
• A Full House: An Austin Family Christmas (1999, ISBN 0-87788-020-4)

The two Christmas books are shorter works, heavily illustrated but not quite picture books in the sense of having pictures on every page. The events in each of these stories take place prior to the events of Meet the Austins.

Other fiction

Katherine Forrester series:

• The Small Rain (1945), ISBN 0-374-26637-9
• Prelude (1968), no ISBN, an adaptation of the first half of The Small Rain
• A Severed Wasp (1982), ISBN 0-374-26131-8

Camilla Dickinson:

• Camilla Dickinson (1951) ISBN 0-440-01020-9, later republished as Camilla
• A Live Coal in the Sea (1996) ISBN 0-374-18989-7

Single titles:

• Ilsa (1946) (no ISBN)
• And Both Were Young (1949), ISBN 0-440-90229-0
• A Winter's Love (1957), ISBN 0-345-30644-9
• The Love Letters (1966), revised and reissued as Love Letters (2000), ISBN 0-87788-528-1
• The Other Side Of The Sun (1971) ISBN 0-374-22805-1
• Dance in the Desert (1969, 1988), ISBN 0-374-41684-2
• Certain Women (1992, 1996) ISBN 0-374-12025-0
• The Joys of Love (2008) ISBN 0-374-33870-1^[22]

(Note: some ISBNs given are for later paperback editions, since no such numbering existed when L'Engle's earlier titles were published in hardcover.)

The Crosswicks Journals

• A Circle of Quiet (1972), ISBN 0-374-12374-8
• The Summer of the Great-grandmother (1974), ISBN 0-374-27174-7
• The Irrational Season (1977), ISBN 0-374-17733-3
• Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (1988), ISBN 0-374-28020-7

The Genesis Trilogy

• And It Was Good (1983) ISBN 0-87788-046-8
• A Stone For A Pillow (1986) ISBN 0-87788-789-6
• Sold Into Egypt (1989) ISBN 0-87788-766-7

Poetry

• Lines Scribbled On An Envelope (1969)
• The Weather Of The Heart (1978)
• A Cry Like A Bell (1987)
• The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle (2005) (includes reprints from the above)

Religion, the arts, and more autobiography

• Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (1982)
• The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth (1993)
• Friends For The Journey (1997)(co-writer) ISBN 0892839864
• Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and other Spiritual Places (1996, 2003)
• Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation (2001) ISBN 0877880794
• Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life (2001) Compiled by Carole Chase. ISBN 0-87788-157-X

Further reading

• Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life by Madeleine L'Engle and Carole F. Chase ISBN 0-87788-157-X
• Scholastic BookFiles: A Reading Guide to A Wrinkle in Time ISBN 0-439-46364-5
• Christian Mythmakers: C. S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J. R. R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G. K. Chesterton and Others by Rolland Hein ISBN 0-940895-48-X

References

1. ^ Martin, Douglas (9/8/07). "Madeleine L'Engle, Children's Writer, Is Dead". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?hp. 
2. ^ L'Engle, Madeleine (1974). The Summer of the Great-grandmother. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. pp. 164. ISBN 0-374-27174-7. 
3. ^ Chase, Carole F. (1972). Suncatcher: A Study of Madeleine L'Engle And Her Writing. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. pp. 30–31. ISBN 1-880913-31-3. 
4. ^ L'Engle, Madeleine (1972). A Circle of Quiet. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0-374-12374-8. 
5. ^ The Summer of the Great-grandmother, pg. 119
6. ^ ^{a b} Franklin, Hugh. "Madeleine L’Engle". Horn Book Magazine (August 1963). http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/1960s/aug63_franklin.asp. Retrieved 2008-05-25. 
7. ^ Madeleine L'Engle at the Internet Broadway Database
8. ^ A Circle of Quiet, pg. 72
9. ^ ^{a b c d} Chase, Carole F. (1972). Suncatcher: A Study of Madeleine L'Engle And Her Writing. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. pp. 169–173 ("A Chronology of Madeleine L'Engle's Life and Books"). ISBN 1-880913-31-3. 
10. ^ West End Home of A Wrinkle in Time Author Sells for $4 M, by Lysandra Ohrstrom, March 7, 2008, New York Observer, [1]
11. ^ "Obituaries: Esther Mitgang; Madeleine L’Engle". Publishers Weekly. 2007-09-07. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6476596.html. Retrieved 2007-09-07. 
12. ^ John Wilson. "A Distorted Predestination". Sept. 1, 2003
13. ^ Julia Eccleshare. "Madeleine L'Engle: Bestselling children's author, renowned for A Wrinkle in Time ". The Guardian. Oct. 2, 2007.
14. ^ Christopher W. Morgan & Robert A. Peterson. Hell Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents Eternal Punishment. p. 171.
15. ^ London Gazette: no. 47369, p. 13902, 4 November 1977. Retrieved on 2007-12-20.
16. ^ Gill, David (2006, 2007). "ALAN Award". ALAN Online. The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents. http://alan-ya.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=32. Retrieved 2007-09-08. 
17. ^ "A Commencement for the Millennium". Haverford News. Haverford College. 2002. http://www.haverford.edu/publicrelations/archives/commencement2000.html. Retrieved 2007-09-07. 
18. ^ About the Collection, Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections
19. ^ Template:Chronoscite book
20. ^ A Circle of Quiet, pp 89-90
21. ^ L'Engle, Madeleine (1986). The L'Engle Family Tree, in Many Waters. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0-374-34796-4. 
22. ^ The Joys of Love Farrar, Straus and Giroux website, Accessed 2008-09-17.

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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Madeleine L'Engle

• L'Engle's official site
• Madeleine L'Engle at FSG
• Obituary in The Times 25 September 2007
• Madeleine L'Engle, author of the Wrinkle in Time Quintet
• ‘I Dare You’ Madeleine L'Engle on God, The Da Vinci Code and aging well Newsweek
• L'Engle's site at WaterBrook Press
• Madeleine L'Engle Papers: About the Author - Wheaton College
• "The Storyteller," The New Yorker, April 12, 2004
• Works by or about Madeleine L'Engle in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Fantasy and Faith, First Things, November 2007

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