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Madeleine L'Engle, 1918-2007
Filed under: In Memoriam Tagged: books, Cynthia Zarin, in memoriam, Madeleine L'Engle
If you have access to the Complete New Yorker, this might be a good weekend to revisit Cynthia Zarin’s excellent April 12, 2004, Profile of this remarkable woman. She will be missed.—Martin SchneiderMadeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88.
Her death, of natural causes, was announced today by her publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Ms. L’Engle … was best known for her children’s classic, “A Wrinkle in Time,†which won the John Newbery Award as the best children’s 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.
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good article, I’m looking for something to use in my famous person essay this doesn’t have enough information, but this amazing writer definitely was everything in your article and more.
The 2004 profile is revolting. I don’t know how anyone could call it “excellent”! What a farce. The profile, or whatever it is, is fit for “The National Enquirer” and the writer befriended L’Engle and her family, then dished the dirt on them. Way to go!