Madeleine L'Engle
Author of A Wrinkle in Time is a Young Adult Legend
Madeleine L'Engle, considered herself to be a writer from the early age of 8. L'Engle spent the majority of her life not only writing passionately for children, young adults and adults but also wrestling with the ideas behind why people are compelled to write, why they read, why they create. L'Engle is not just important because of the classic books she wrote, but also because of her great mind, which she so willingly shared with her audience through her many nonfiction publications.
The Early Life of Madeleine L'Engle Camp
Madeleine L'Engle Camp was born to Madeleine and Charles Camp on November 29, 1918. She spent much of her early life in boarding schools, and often uses these experiences in the Crosswick Journals to discuss her views on education. She went on to attend Smith College, graduating cum laude and going on to act in various stage productions throughout New York.
Education and Adult Life
It was at one of these stage productions, Chekov's The Cherry Tree to be exact, where Madeleine met a young man named Hugh Franklin, who would later become her dear husband. The two acted together a while longer until buying a 200-year old home in Connecticut called Crosswicks, and buying and running the town general store there. Josephine, the couple's first child, was born in 1947 and Bion, their second, was born in 1952.
L'Engle continued to write through this time, and as her popularity began to increase, she soon began to travel the country as a noted speaker on the subjects of arts and religion. After a few serious accidents in the nineties, L'Engle slowed her schedule down, no longer speaking to large groups around the country.
On September 6, 2007, the world lost one of its greatest as Ms. L'Engle died of natural causes in Connecticut, causing many around the country to mourn.
Her Works
Though Madeleine L'Engle is most known for her young adult literature (A Wrinkle in Time, Troubling a Star, etc.), she also has a great deal of nonfiction work, some resembling memoir, others in the form of essays on faith and the arts. A strong Episcopalian, L'Engle's Christian faith peppered most everything she said and wrote.
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