Madeleine L Engle Popular Books
Madeleine L Engle Biography & Facts
Madeleine L'Engle (; November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including 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 both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science. Early life Madeleine L'Engle Camp was born in New York City on November 29, 1918, and named after her great-grandmother, Madeleine Margaret L'Engle, otherwise known as Mado. Her maternal grandfather was Florida banker Bion Barnett, co-founder of Barnett Bank in Jacksonville, Florida. Her mother, a pianist, was also named Madeleine: Madeleine Hall Barnett. Her father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a writer, critic, and foreign correspondent who, according to his daughter, suffered lung damage from mustard gas during World War I.L'Engle wrote her first story aged five and began keeping a journal aged eight. These early literary attempts did not translate into academic success at the New York City private school where she was enrolled. A shy, awkward 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.The Camps traveled frequently. At one point, the family moved to a château 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. However, in 1933, L'Engle's grandmother fell ill, and they moved near Jacksonville, Florida to be close to her. L'Engle attended another boarding school, Ashley Hall, in Charleston, South Carolina. When her father died in October 1936, Madeleine arrived home too late to say goodbye. Education, marriage, and family L'Engle attended Smith College from 1937 to 1941. After graduating cum laude from Smith, she moved to an apartment in New York City. L'Engle published her novels The Small Rain and Ilsa prior to 1942. She met actor Hugh Franklin that year when she appeared in the play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, and she married him on January 26, 1946. Later she wrote of their meeting and marriage, "We met in The Cherry Orchard and were married in The Joyous Season." The couple's first daughter, Josephine, was born in 1947. The family moved to a 200-year-old farmhouse called Crosswicks in the small town of Goshen, 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. 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. Writing career L'Engle determined to give up writing on her 40th birthday (November 1958) when she received yet another rejection notice. "With all the hours I spent writing, I was still not pulling my own weight financially." Soon she discovered both that she could not give it up and that she had continued to work on fiction subconsciously.The family returned to New York City in 1959 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, which she completed by 1960. It was rejected more than thirty times before she handed it to John C. Farrar; it was finally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1962.In 1960 the Franklins moved to an apartment on the Upper West Side, in the Cleburne Building on West End Avenue. From 1960 to 1966 (and again in 1986, 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. Four of the books for adults formed the Crosswicks Journals series of autobiographical memoirs. Of these, The Summer of the Great-grandmother (1974) discusses L'Engle's personal experience caring for her aged mother, and Two-Part Invention (1988) is a memoir of her marriage, completed after her husband's death from cancer on September 26, 1986. On writing for children Soon after winning the Newbery Medal for her 1962 "junior novel" A Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle discussed children's books in The New York Times Book Review. The writer of a good children's book, she observed, may need to return to the "intuitive understanding of his own childhood," being childlike although not childish. She claimed, "It's often possible to make demands of a child that couldn't be made of an adult... A child will often understand scientific concepts that would baffle an adult. This is because he can understand with a leap of the imagination that is denied the grown-up who has acquired the little knowledge that is a dangerous thing." Of philosophy, etc., as well as science, "the child will come to it with an open mind, whereas many adults come closed to an open book. This is one reason so many writers turn to fantasy (which children claim as their own) when they have something important and difficult to say." Religious beliefs L'Engle was a Christian who attended Episcopal churches 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." As a result of her promotion of Christian universalism, many fundamentalist Christian bookstores refused to carry her books, which were also frequently banned from evangelical Christian schools and libraries. At the same time, some of her most secular critics attacked her work for being far too religious.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."In 1982, L'Engle reflected on how suffering had taught her. She told how suffering a "lonely solitude" as a child taught her about the "world of the imagination" that enabled her to write for children. Later she suffered a "decade of failure" after her first books were published. It was a "bitt.... Discover the Madeleine L Engle popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Madeleine L Engle books.
Best Seller Madeleine L Engle Books of 2024
-
A Circle of Friends
Katherine KirkpatrickMadeleine L'Engle's friends and writing students remember the beloved author in nearly three dozen essays and poems, illustrated with photographs.
-
A Circle of Friends
Katherine KirkpatrickMadeleine L'Engle's friends and writing students remember the beloved author in nearly three dozen essays and poems, illustrated with photographs.
-
On Through the Never
Melissa E. HurstIn 2013, Bridger and Alora found a way to prevent Alora’s murder and return her to the century she was born in, preserving the timeline and preventing a possibly disastrous future....
-
Smoke and Mirrors
K. D. Halbrook“Rewarding.” BCCB (starred review)“A Wrinkle in Time–inspired adventure…Halbrook’s writing is artful.” Kirkus Reviews“This is a story to savor.” Kathi Appelt, National Book Award f...
-
The Ordering of Love
Madeleine L'EngleFrom the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time comes the definitive edition of her inspirational and timeless poetry, featuring more than 200 original poems, a new Foreword...
-
Uncool
Jane De SuzaSo, I'm DD and I'm going to be rich and famous because I'm making a film on (hold the phone still, will ya?) high school life. All the secrets, fights, crazy exam pressure, brainia...
-
A Light So Lovely
Sarah ArthurMadeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time has captured the imagination of millions from literary sensation to timeless classic and now a major motion picture starring Oprah Winfrey, R...
-
Listening for Madeleine
Leonard S. MarcusWriter. Matriarch. Mentor. Friend. Icon. Madeleine L'Engle is perhaps best recognized as the author of A Wrinkle in Time, the enduring milestone work of fantasy fiction that won th...
-
7 best short stories - Morality Tales
Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant, Matsuo Basho & August NemoOne of the functions of literature is to share experiences and reflections, thus improving the community as a whole. It is in this spirit that the authors compiled here wrote stori...
-
A Book, Too, Can Be a Star
Charlotte Jones Voiklis & Jennifer AdamsAn inspiring picture book biography of beloved author Madeleine L’Engle and the making of A Wrinkle in Time.When Madeleine L'Engle was very small, she often found herself awake at ...
-
The Greatest Classics for Children in One Volume
Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, George MacDonald, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Andrew Lang, John Meade Falkner, Jonathan Swift, Maurice Maeterlinck, Daniel Defoe, Johnny Gruelle, Aesop, Hugh Lofting, Emerson Hough, George Haven Putnam, Anna Sewell, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, Kenneth Grahame, Eva March Tappan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan Coolidge, Carlo Collodi, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Georgette Leblanc, Jennie Hall, Carl Sandburg, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Evelyn Sharp, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Marion St. John Webb, L. Frank Baum, James Matthew Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, E. Nesbit, E. T. A. Hoffmann, E. Boyd Smith, Hans Christian Andersen, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Vishnu Sharma, Margery Williams, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Dorothy Canfield, Howard R. Garis, The Brothers Grimm, Thornton Burgess, R. L. Stevenson & Miguel CervantesThis carefully edited collection of the mostbeloved and enjoyed children's classics of all time has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted fo...
-
7 best short stories - Thanksgiving Day
Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, William Dean Howells, O. Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis K. Ball, Edward Payson Roe & August NemoThanksgiving began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cu...
-
7 best short stories - Christmas
Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Van Dyke, Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry & August NemoChristmas brings out the best of us, our best intentions and willingness to share with others. The writers also participate in this climate of generosity and offered us with great ...
-
Miracle on 10th Street
Madeleine L'Engle & Lindsay LackeyCelebrate the season with this beautiful and inspiring collection of thoughtful reflections on Christmas from the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time. For more than seve...