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Biography of Madeleine L'EngleName: Madeleine L'EngleBirth Date: November 29, 1918 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: author, lecturer Madeleine L'Engle American fiction writer Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918) is 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 ParentsMadeleine L'Engle Camp was born November 29, 1918, in New York, New York, the only child of artistic parents who …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…give her work a peculiar splendor." Associated Works A Wrinkle in Time 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). |