Madeleine L'Engle

Alkisti Kallinikou (University of Edinburgh)

Ed. by Dainy Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 29 Nov 1918
Died 6 Sep 2007
Activity c. 1960-c. 2007

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer

Resources

L'Engle's Works

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Madeleine L’Engle was a celebrated American author, best known for her contributions to children’s and young-adult literature. Her most famous work,

A Wrinkle in Time

(1962), won the prestigious Newbery Medal in 1963 and has sold millions of copies worldwide. L’Engle’s writing spans several genres, including fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and drama, weaving themes such as spirituality, faith, and personal growth, while blending elements of fantasy and science fiction.

Born Madeleine L’Engle Camp in New York City in 1918, L’Engle grew up in an environment rich with literary and artistic influences. Her father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a journalist, novelist, and later foreign correspondent, while her mother, Madeleine “Mado” Hall Barnett, was a concert pianist. As the only

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Citation: Kallinikou, Alkisti. "Madeleine L'Engle". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 October 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15159, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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