Madeline L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time passed away on September 6, 2007. Madeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday (September 6, 2007) in Connecticut. She was 88
Ms. L’Engle (pronounced LENG-el) was best known for her children’s classic, “A Wrinkle in Time,” which won the John Newbery Award as the best children’s book of 1963…
Her works — poetry, plays, autobiography and books on prayer — were deeply personal. But it was in her vivid children’s characters that readers most clearly glimpsed her passionate search for the questions that mattered most. She sometimes spoke of her writing as if she were taking dictation from her subconscious.
“Of course I’m Meg,” Ms. L’Engle said about the beloved protagonist of “A Wrinkle in Time.” (synopsized from The New York Times)
Biographical information on Ms. L’Engle as well as critical analyses of her works can be obtained from the The Scribner Writers Series. Literature Resource Center and Novelist databases. These databases can be accessed directly from the Syosset Public Library webpage, http://www.nassaulibrary.org/syosset/online/librarydatabases.php.
Ms. L’Engle’s website, which includes a complete bibliography, is http://www.madeleinelengle.com/books/
A partial list of her books is shown below:
Young Adult Fiction
And Both Were Young, 1949
Meet the Austins, 1960
A Wrinkle in Time, 1962
The Moon By Night, 1963
Camilla Dickinson, 1951; reissued as Camilla, 1965
The Arm of the Starfish, 1965
The Young Unicorns, 1968
A Wind in the Door, 1973
Dragons in the Waters, 1976
A Swiftly Tilting Planet, 1978
A Ring of Endless Light, 1980
A House Like a Lotus, 1984
Many Waters, 1986
An Acceptable Time, 1989
Troubling a Star, 1994
A Full House, 1999
Children’s Fiction
The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas, 1964
The Anti-Muffins, 1980
Miracle on 10th Street,
The Other Dog, 2001
General Fiction
The Small Rain, 1945; reissued as Prelude, 1968
Ilsa, 1946
A Winter’s Love, 1957; reissued 1999
The Love Letters, 1966
The Other Side of the Sun, 1971
A Severed Wasp, 1982
Certain Women, 1992
A Live Coal in the Sea, 1996
Ed Goldberg
Teen Services Librarian