Wrinkle In Time author Madeleine L'Engle has died at the age of 89

[Fran Kubelik]

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[blogslut]

1. RIP

That was a sweet little book.

[ananda]

2. Maybe she's partying in the tesseract.

:-)

[Fran Kubelik]

3. yay!

That's a great thought.

:pals:

[musette_sf]

4. oh! so sad

i loved "A Wrinkle In Time", and i just got into some of her books for grown-ups. "A Live Coal In The Sea" was beautiful and moving. i think i'll order some more of her stuff today...

[Fran Kubelik]

7. The Summer of the Great Grandmother was a great one for adults

As was A Circle of Quiet.

[MuseRider]

5. Oh no.

RIP Madeleine L'Engle and thank you.

That was the book that made a reader out of me as a child. I read it to my kids and will occasionally pull it out to look over again.

[cali]

6. Loved her books when I was a kid

I still have a bunch of signed autographed ones, and loved reading them to my son.

RIP

[Fran Kubelik]

10. Did you meet her?

I am so jealous.

[cali]

11. i did. My dad knew her.

they hadn't really kept up their childhood friendship, but I met her a couple of times. They had common friends.

[Fran Kubelik]

13. Oh....wow.

It's funny. To me she is an icon and an amazing thinker. To you she's your dad's friend. Did I already say I was jealous?

[Bitwit1234]

8. I loved her books.

Even tho I am a lot older than those the books were written for, I still enjoy them.

[jpgray]

9. I had a dog named Fortinbras

:D

[Dora]

12. Oh, I am crying. Here's the NYT obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=books&pagewanted=print

Her books saved my soul when I was going through the trauma known as junior high. She did more to expand my thinking than any high school or university class I ever took.

:cry:

[jpgray]

14. I liked the perfect little family of awkward but brainy kids. Instant readership goldmine!

:D

But hey, kudos to her for combining time travel, math, and biology in a really fascinating way.

[Fran Kubelik]

15. you and me both

I cried when my friend sent me the email. I always wanted to tell her how much she helped me get through childhood.

[LibertyLover]

16. RIP Ms L'Engle and thank you

Well, she is with her beloved husband Hugh now. I had the pleasure of meeting her many years ago at a book fair in NYC. A friend of mine from college had been a student at St. Hilda and St. Hugh's School when she taught there and I mentioned his name to her. She remembered him instantly and wanted to be brought up to date on him and his family, which I did. She was a very kind and gracious lady.

[Fran Kubelik]

17. Oh, yes. I loved the way she wrote about her husband.

He was an actor on All My Children, iirc.

[Swamp Rat]

18. k&r

[Stand and Fight]

19. This is very sad... Very sad.

Reading her book, A Wrinkle In Time, really started me on the path of being a passionate and more analytical reader and thinker. I can rightly say that it is part of the reason of some of my core beliefs... Part of the reason as to why I am so committed to liberal politics and I renounce the insipid illogical views of the political and social right.

I see a lot of deaths posted on here, but this is one of the rare occasions that I feel like it is a real lost. It's too bad that her official site has not updated yet to reflect her passing. She will be missed.

[yodermon]

20. I heard her speak at Duke University in 1992.

I was a senior at the School of Science & Math in Durham, and my sister was a student at Duke.
L'Engle was speaking at the Duke Chapel. I can't remember the substance of her talk but one line stuck in my head.
It was, paraphrased: Fundamentalists who believe in a wrathful God are truly bizarre because they pray for God to save them from .. Himself.

RIP Madeleine.

[Jade Fox]

21. My favorite childhood author.....

RIP, you wonderful woman. :hug:

I read recently that L'Engle could not get Wrinkle in Time published, even tho she knew it was a great book by her own children's response to it. Finally, someone published it as a favor, and the rest is history.

[tigereye]

22. very cool and very smart woman

I was saddened when I saw this today. Her books made a big impact on me when I was a preteen. I should check out her adult books - don't think I"ve read any.