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(1918-2007) Author, novelist. Madeleine L’Engle wrote childrens stories, religious works, and science fiction.

Full Name

Madeleine L'Engle

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

L'Engle studied at the New School University in Manhattan, New York.

1918

BIRTH

Madeleine L'Engle Camp was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1918.

1940

LITWORK

18 Washington Square, South: A Comedy in One Act


Play.

1945

LITWORK

The Small Rain


Novel.

1949

LITWORK

How Now Brown Cow


Play.

1960

LITWORK

Meet the Austins


Novel.

1963

LITWORK

A Wrinkle in Time
Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Children's book and winner of the John Newbery Medal.

1963

LITWORK

The Moon by Night


Novel.

1964

LITWORK

The Twenty-Four Days before Christmas: An Austin Family Story


Novel.

1968

LITWORK

The Young Unicorns


Novel.

1973

LITWORK

A Wind in the Door


Novel.

1978

LITWORK

A Swiftly Tilting Planet


Novel.

1980

LITWORK

A Ring of Endless Light


Novel.

1986

LITWORK

A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys With Jacob


Autobiography.

1986

LITWORK

Many Waters


Novel.

2001

LITWORK

The Genesis Trilogy


Autobiography.

2007

DEATH

Madeleine L'Engle died in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 2007.

2007

INTERMENT

Madeleine L'Engle was interred at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan, New York.

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