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Madeleine L'Engle

1918 - 2007

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Madeleine L'Engle (; November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madeleine L'Engle has received more than 1,595,680 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Madeleine L'Engle is the 5,587th most popular writer (down from 4,900th in 2019), the 8,380th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,227th in 2019) and the 647th most popular American Writer.

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

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  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A Wind in the Door
Science fiction, Juvenile literature, Brothers and sisters
A Wind in the Door is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a companion book to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quartet (and by extension the Time Quintet). It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Blajeny) who explains that what they are seeing isn’t a dragon at all, but a cherubim named Proginoskes. It turns out that C.W. is ill and that Blajeny and Proginoskes are there to make him well – and by making him well, they will keep the balance of the universe in check and save it from the evil Echthros. Meg, Calvin and Mr. Jenkins (grade school principal) must travel inside C.W. to have this battle and save Charles’ life as well as the balance of the universe.
1973
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Science fiction, Juvenile fiction, Space and time in literature
The Murry and OKeefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war. In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg -- grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything" -- goes with him in spirit. But in overcoming the challenges, Charles Wallace must face the ultimate test of his faith and will, as he is sent within four people from another time, there to search for a way to avert the tragedy threatening them all. - Publisher.
1978
The young unicorns
Fiction, Science fiction, Adventure stories
1968
A Wrinkle in Time
Love, sci-fi, Newbery Medal
A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. It is about Meg And Charles Walence. Their father, who was working on a interesting project called a tesseract, goes missing! Then they meet a boy and some strange women. This story won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award For this amazing story! It also has a movie! I Hope you all enjoy!
1962
Many Waters
Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle, Children's
Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them. The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful Nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.
1986
An Acceptable Time
Druids and Druidism, Fiction, Space and time
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
1989

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 5,587 out of 7,302. Before her are Zofka Kveder, Beryl Markham, Aubrey de Grey, Alexander Amfiteatrov, Lina Morgenstern, and Douglas Coupland. After her are Luigi Galleani, George Lillo, Yordan Radichkov, Fang Fang, Åsne Seierstad, and J. Slauerhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 258. Before her are Yevgeniya Sechenova, Renée Faure, Reinaldo Gorno, Mariano Mores, Peter Poreku Dery, and Tranquilo Cappozzo. After her are Yelizaveta Chaikina, Gunnel Vallquist, Axel Grönberg, Douglas Bennett, Donald Regan, and Anne Gwynne. Among people deceased in 2007, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 317. Before her are The Fabulous Moolah, Tetsuo Okamoto, Anita Roddick, Giorgio Anglesio, Grace Paley, and Pief Panofsky. After her are Srđan Mrkušić, Laraine Day, Atilio Cremaschi, Leslie Orgel, Noël Milarew Odingar, and John Gardner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 8,380 out of 20,380. Before her are Frank Piasecki (1919), Lee Calhoun (1933), Raymond T. Odierno (1954), Sophia Bush (1982), Henry Dreyfuss (1904), and Barbara Bonney (1956). After her are Gailard Sartain (1946), Robert L. Eichelberger (1886), Dominique Swain (1980), Mary Wilson (1944), Chris Paul (1985), and Melissa Belote (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Madeleine L'Engle ranks 647. Before her are Tom Robbins (1932), Grace Paley (1922), Larry McMurtry (1936), Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884), Barbara Ehrenreich (1941), and Steven Millhauser (1943). After her are Marilyn Ferguson (1938), Whittaker Chambers (1901), L. J. Smith (1965), James C. Collins (1958), Judith Krantz (1928), and Howard Ashman (1950).

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