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A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle.First published in 1962, [2] the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
An Acceptable Time is a 1989 young adult science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the last of her books to feature Polyhymnia O'Keefe, better known as Poly (The Arm of the Starfish, Dragons in the Waters) or Polly (A House Like a Lotus, An Acceptable Time). [1]
The world of L'Engle's characters is filled with fictional place names, often taken from mythological figures that relate symbolically to the locale. For example, the planet Ixchel in A Wrinkle in Time, where Meg is cared for by a motherly sightless creature with tentacles, is named for Ixchel, a Mayan moon goddess. Other, more mundane ...
Madeleine L'Engle (/ ˈ l ɛ ŋ ɡ əl /; November 29, 1918 [1] – September 6, 2007) [2] 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.
The character is based on L'Engle's spiritual advisor at St. John the Divine, Canon Edward Nason West. [4] To preserve West's privacy during his lifetime, L'Engle referred to him as Canon Tallis in her non-fiction as well as her fiction. The name is a reference to composer Thomas Tallis, who composed the Tallis Canon. Because of this namesake ...
The Arm of the Starfish is a young adult novel by Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1965.It is the first novel featuring Poly O'Keefe and the O'Keefe family, a generation after the events of A Wrinkle in Time (1962).
The novel grew out of a short story, "Intergalactic P.S. 3", first published as a pamphlet for Children's Book Week in 1970. In this early version of the narrative, Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which from A Wrinkle in Time send Charles Wallace, Meg and Calvin to a school on another planet, where Proginoskes and a conifer seed version of Sporos are among their classmates.
It is the opening line in the 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. [13] [14] L'Engle biographer Leonard Marcus notes that "With a wink to the reader, she chose for the opening line of A Wrinkle in Time, her most audaciously original work of fiction, that hoariest of cliches ... L'Engle herself was certainly aware of old warhorse's ...