Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - 2007) ماديلين لنجلي
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An American writer known for writing young adult fiction, she is best known for the Newbery Award-winning novel A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, A Wind in the Door, the National Book Award-winning novel A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Madeleine...Read more L'Engle Camp was born in New York City, and was named after her great-grandmother, Madeleine Margaret L'Engle. Her maternal grandfather, Peon Barnett, was a Florida banker and co-founder of Barnett Bank in Jacksonville, Florida. Her mother was a pianist, and her father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a writer, critic, and reporter. L'Engle attended Smith College from 1937 to 1941, and published her novels The Small Rain and Ilsa before meeting her husband in 1942, the actor Hugh Franklin, whom she met while appearing in the play The Cherry Orchard. They were married on January 26, 1946. When she later wrote about their meeting and marriage, she said, "We met in the cherry orchard and we married in the season of joy." The couple's first daughter, a daughter, was born in 1947. The family returned to New York in 1948. 1959 so that Hugh could resume his acting career. This move was preceded by a ten-week cross-country camping trip, during which L'Engle first worked on the idea for her novel A Wrinkle in Time, which she completed by 1960. It was rejected more than thirty times before she hand-delivered it to the publisher John Farrar, and was finally published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1962. She died in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA.
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- Date of Birth:
- 29 November 1918
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- Died on:
- 6 September 2007
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An American writer known for writing young adult fiction, she is best known for the Newbery Award-winning novel A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, A Wind in the Door, the National...Read more Book Award-winning novel A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Madeleine L'Engle Camp was born in New York City, and was named after her great-grandmother, Madeleine Margaret L'Engle. Her maternal grandfather, Peon Barnett, was a Florida banker and co-founder of Barnett Bank in Jacksonville, Florida. Her mother was a pianist, and her father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a writer, critic, and reporter. L'Engle attended Smith College from 1937 to 1941, and published her novels The Small Rain and Ilsa before meeting her husband in 1942, the actor Hugh Franklin, whom she met while appearing in the play The Cherry Orchard. They were married on January 26, 1946. When she later wrote about their meeting and marriage, she said, "We met in the cherry orchard and we married in the season of joy." The couple's first daughter, a daughter, was born in 1947. The family returned to New York in 1948. 1959 so that Hugh could resume his acting career. This move was preceded by a ten-week cross-country camping trip, during which L'Engle first worked on the idea for her novel A Wrinkle in Time, which she completed by 1960. It was rejected more than thirty times before she hand-delivered it to the publisher John Farrar, and was finally published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1962. She died in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA.
- Nationality:
- US
- Date of Birth:
- 29 November 1918
- Died on:
- 6 September 2007
