1. Madeleine L'Engle who wrote A Wrinkle in Time, has uneven legs from an illness.
2. Her father died while she was in boarding school.
3. She failed on her tests.
4. She won an award in a poem contest but people said she copied it because she was so "stupid and clumsy."
5. She wrote stories secretly in her childhood.
6. Madeleine's parents stuck to their nonchild habits after they had a child.
7. She grew up thinking art was as natural as making supper.
8. Her dad suffered from a mustard gas attack and had an illness that lasted the rest of his life.
9. When she was eight, she made a daily journal that she wrote in until her death.
10. Even though everyone thought she was stupid and clumsy in boarding school, Madeleine L'Engle became a famous writer.
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6 comments:
She died a few years ago. I remember reading the Wrinkle in Time series. I loved them.
I really like Madeleine L'Engle's work- especially the Time Quartet. I did not know any of these things about her. Thank you for sharing!
series?
what is the Time Quartet about?
A Wrinkle in Time is the first of four books. It's not exactly a series, because some of the characters are different, but they're all quite good.
http://www.amazon.com/Wrinkle-Quintet-Swiftly-Tilting-Acceptable/dp/0312373511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323309903&sr=8-1
Oh, I see it's a quintet now. I'll have to read the last book.
Here's the description from Amazon:
The Time Quintet consists of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. The digest box set features the art of Taeeun Yoo.
A Wrinkle in Time is one of the most significant novels of our time. This fabulous, ground-breaking science-fiction and fantasy story is the first of five in the Time Quintet series about the Murry family.
A Wind in the Door—When Charles Wallace falls ill, Meg, Calvin, and their teacher, Mr. Jenkins, must travel inside C.W. to make him well, and save the universe from the evil Echthros.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet—The Murry and O’Keefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war.
Many Waters—Meg Murry, now in college, time travels with her twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys, to a desert oasis that is embroiled in war.
An Acceptable Time—While spending time with her grandparents, Alex and Kate Murry, Polly O’Keefe wanders into a time 3,000 years before her own.
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