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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 ...
A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the third book in the Time Quintet. It was first published in 1978 with cover art by Diane Dillon . The book's title is an allusion to the poem "Morning Song of Senlin" by Conrad Aiken .
A Full House was first published as a short story in two of L'Engle's collections, and then issued as a picture book in 1999. Meet the Austins is followed, in terms of internal chronology as well as publication date, by the full-length novels The Moon by Night (1963), The Young Unicorns (1968), A Ring of Endless Light (1980) and Troubling a ...
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Adam Eddington III is a major character in three young adult novels by Madeleine L'Engle.A marine biology student, he is the protagonist of The Arm of the Starfish (), and a reluctant romantic love interest for Vicky Austin in A Ring of Endless Light (), a romantic relationship that continues in Troubling a Star ().
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L'Engle herself was writer-in-residence at the cathedral for many years. Switzerland - site of at least two fictional boarding schools in L'Engle's early novels (notably The Small Rain and And Both Were Young), based on one that L'Engle herself attended. Also the setting of the adult novel A Winter's Love.