Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle Camp was born in New York City in 1918; her father was a writer and journalist and her mother a pianist. She attended boarding schools in Switzerland and South Carolina and studied English at Smith College. She then worked in the theater in New York, where she met the actor Hugh Franklin; they married in 1946 and from 1952 lived in Connecticut, where they ran a general store. A Wrinkle in Time, about Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace and their friend Calvin, who travel through space and time to rescue Meg's father, was rejected by many publishers before it appeared in 1962. It won the Newbery Medal in 1963 and was followed by other books about the Murry family. L'Engle wrote more than sixty books, including novels, poetry, memoirs such as A Circle of Quiet, and reflections on faith and art. For many years she served as librarian and writer-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. She received the National Humanities Medal in 2004 and died in Connecticut in 2007.

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Faith: A Christian who attended Episcopal churches and believed in universal salvation. Source: Wikipedia