For half a century, Madeleine L'Engle has touched many lives through her books. This biography, written with L'Engle's authorization, chronicles her life, philosophy, and spiritual journey, and gives an intimate look into the life of one of America's most prolific writers.

In celebration of Madeleine L'Engle's 80th birthday and the 35th anniversary of her Newbery Medal for "A Wrinkle in Time" comes this newly revised, updated overview of L'Engle's work, especially highlighting her spiritual vision that is integral to all of her writing. Features excerpts from over 30 of her books, plus charts showing L'Engles publications, major life events, and character interrelations.

Best known for her young adult novel A Wrinkle in Time, and fiction that merges fantasy, science, and theology, Madeleine L Engle received the National Humanities Medal twelve days before her eighty-sixth birthday. This engaging biography offers a glimpse into the life and work of one of America s favorite authors who inspires readers with characters who make a real effort to learn and grow, and are rewarded for the pain they ve suffered. In it we learn her work methods, and that her goal in writing a book is to ask questions, hoping her book will help find the answers.

Madeleine L’Engle’s friends and writing studentsremember the beloved author in nearly three dozenessays and poems, illustrated with photographs.

In honor of Madeleine L'Engle's 80th birthday, a host of prominent writers and academics gather to create this unique collection. Madeleine's circle of friends and peers (writers, poets, scholars, theologians) here provide an intimate portrait of L'Engle and respond to her writings and mentoring influence. Ranging from the personal to the academic, these essays illuminate the many worlds of Madeleine's writings: the private, the reflective, the theological, the scientific, the mythic, and the literary.

Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L’Engle develops for her characters in a selection of the novels from her three Time, Austin family, and O’Keefe family series as those relationships develop along a human-nonhuman kinship continuum. This is accomplished through an examination both of pairs of novels from the fantastic and the realistic series, and of single novels which stand out as slightly different from the most prominent genre in a given series. Thus, this examination also shows L’Engle’s fluid movement along a fantasy-reality continuum and demonstrates the integration of the three series with each other. Importantly, through examining these relationships and this movement along continuums in these novels, the project demonstrates how ecopsychology and ecotherapy provide strong and important – and as-yet virtually unexplored – intersections with children’s literature.

NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years! "A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg Cabot Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murray, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract--a wrinkle that transports one across space and time--to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murray is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murray but the safety of the whole universe. A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet.