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Madeleine L'Engle, Writer of Children's Classics, Is Dead at 88

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Madeleine L'Engle, an author whose childhood fables, religious meditations and fanciful science fiction transcended both genre and generation, most memorably in her children's classic "A Wrinkle in Time," died on Thursday, September 6th, in Litchfield, Conn. She was 88.

Her death was announced by her publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. A spokeswoman said Ms. L'Engle (pronounced LENG-el) had died of natural causes at a nursing home, which she entered three years ago. Before then the author had maintained homes in Manhattan and Goshen, Conn.

"A Wrinkle in Time" was rejected by 26 publishers before editors at Farrar, Straus & Giroux read it and enthusiastically accepted it. It proved to be her masterpiece, winning the John Newbery Medal as the best children's book of 1963 and selling, so far, eight million copies. It is now in its 69th printing.


[NYTimes]

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