Madeleine L Engle's A Wrinkle In Time

Madeleine L’Engle was an imaginative storyteller who wrote to help people through familial trauma and religious walks, and she inspired girls and women to take the reins of life, especially in speculative fiction. Her most notable work is A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the 1963 Newberry Medal, and its movie adaptation being released today continues to impact readers. L’Engle was born Madeleine L’Engle Camp in 1918 to journalist Charles Camp and pianist Madeleine “Mado” who had already built their lives with a routine full of parties, sleeping in, and hobbies, leaving L’Engle to occupy herself alone (Voiklis and Roy 11, 7, 16). To do so, she followed her father’s writing – dropping Camp to separate herself – and her mother’s storytelling as she began a diary at eight that she would continue until her death in 2007 (23, 103). L’Engle adored her parents, but …show more content…
In 1930, the family moved to Switzerland and L’Engle was unceremoniously dumped at a girls’ boarding school (30). Still, she saw the silver lining in all her parents’ actions and found the school to be a great help in cultivating her skills. Foregoing her studies, she improved her writing and learned to shut out noise and distractions (30-31). Back in the U.S., L’Engle attended high school at Ashley Hall in South Carolina where she was active in many organizations pertaining to French, writing, theatre, and sports (42, 64). She graduated cum laude from Smith College and returned to her childhood home of New York City to pursue her acting career (Paul). She worked with Eva Le Gallienne for years before meeting her husband Hugh Franklin, also an actor, but she kept her middle name for publications (83). They moved to Connecticut, had two children, and took in another girl, but L’Engle’s rose colored

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