A Wrinkle In Time Author Dies

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Author Madeleine L'Engle, whose novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has been enjoyed by generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88.

The Story here http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_re_us/obit_l_engle


Wrinkle in Time is one of my all time favorate books.
I must go re-read it - if only it wasn't in a box somewhere in my storage unit.

I always thought that Disney should have done this as an animated film.

:( RIP

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Oh, dear. RIP, Madeline, if it weren't for you I'd never have a cat named Tessercat.

[Snowflake]

Okay, I was thinking just the other day I needed to re-read these. I came upon them in my 20's and love them still.

RIP :( but thanks for the wonderful stories! :snap:

[Alex]

Madeleine L'Engle is a whole in my science fiction/fantasy eduction caused by me jumping too early to the adult section of the library.

I always meant to read them just for completeness but have never done it.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I loved her books! I haven't read them in a while, and I may own a copy of Wrinkle in Time, but they were such great books. The world has lost another talent. ::sigh::

[flippyshark]

My aunt took a creative writing class from L'Engle. (In New York, I'm pretty sure.) Anyhow, she always raved about the experience, and bought me a set of the books when I was little. I'd like to revisit them again soon as well.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Madeleine L'Engle is a whole in my science fiction/fantasy eduction caused by me jumping too early to the adult section of the library.

I always meant to read them just for completeness but have never done it.Lordy, Alex, you may as well say that you'd never read Asimov or Heinlein. A Wrinkle in Time is one of those rare books that I could not stop rereading. There was a time when I had memorized full quotes. I wasn't a fan of the rest of the series but that first book was perfection.

Sad to see her go.

[Alex]

What can I say. One I was reading from the "adult" section of the library around the second grade, I wouldn't be caught dead in the YA section (this response was reinforced by a school librarian who physically barred me from reading books in a section deemed "too advanced" for my age.

Fortunately, for some reason Heinlein's juveniles are almost always shelved in the regular fiction area but unfortunately L'Engle is almost always in the YA section of libraries. Since my interest in even good YA literature is so close to zero it isn't worth browsing those areas for the few nuggets that might actually interest me.

So it was out of sight, out of mind.

[lindyhop]

Sad news. And also sad that I learn more about interesting people by reading their obits than I ever knew about them when they were alive.

Time to re-read her books.

[Not Afraid]

That's why I LOVE obits!

I adored these books - especially Wrinkle. I even have a universal hand symbol I regularly use for a Tesseract.

[NickO'Time]

It was required reading at my private school in 7th grade. Great book no matter if it was or not!

[lindyhop]

That's why I LOVE obits!

Yes, I always read the obituary page.