Madeleine L'Engle

(November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007)

Madeleine L'Engle Camp, an American writer, was best known for YA fiction, including, most famously, A Wrinkle in Time (1962) — the first sf novel read by untold numbers of fen who grew up in the 1960s and ’70s — and its sequels: A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), Many Waters (1986) and An Acceptable Time (1989), sometimes called the “Time Quintet.”

• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
• Official website.
• Papers at Smith College.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1963 -- John Newbery Medal
• 1980 -- Newbery Honor, American Book Award
• 1981 -- Newbery Honor
• 1985 -- Fantasy Worlds Festival '85, Regina Medal
• 1986 -- Lunacon 29, Life, the Universe, & Everything 4
• 1994 -- Mythcon XXV
• 1997 -- World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement
• 2013 -- Crater on Mercury named after L'Engle
• Honorary doctorates from 17 institutions

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1918—2007

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