{"id":11392,"date":"2007-09-07T17:26:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T00:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/09\/07\/farewell-madeleine-lengle.html"},"modified":"2007-09-07T17:26:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T00:26:26","slug":"farewell_madeleine_lengle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/farewell_madeleine_lengle.html","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Madeleine L’Engle."},"content":{"rendered":"

Her<\/a> books were magical, imaginative, spiritual without being preachy.  She will be missed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ms. L\u2019Engle (pronounced LENG-el) was best known for her children\u2019s classic, \u201cA Wrinkle in Time,\u201d which won the John Newbery Award as the best children\u2019s book of 1963. By 2004, it had sold more than 6 million copies, was in its 67th printing and was still selling 15,000 copies a year.<\/p>\n

Her works \u2014 poetry, plays, autobiography and books on prayer \u2014 were deeply, quixotically personal. But it was in her vivid children\u2019s characters that readers most clearly glimpsed her passionate search for the questions that mattered most. She sometimes spoke of her writing as if she were taking dictation from her subconscious.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I\u2019m Meg,\u201d Ms. L\u2019Engle said about the beloved protagonist of \u201cA Wrinkle in Time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cSt. James Guide to Children\u2019s Writers\u201d called Ms. L\u2019Engle \u201cone of the truly important writers of juvenile fiction in recent decades.\u201d Such accolades did not come from pulling punches: \u201cWrinkle\u201d is one of the most banned books because of its treatment of the deity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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