Madeleine L’Engle

[jhetley]

Publishers Weekly is reporting she died last night:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6476596.html?nid=2286&rid=2067406399&source=link

"Madeleine L’Engle
Author Madeleine L’Engle died last night in Connecticut, at the age of 89. Best
known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, L’Engle
was the author of more than 60 books for adults and young readers, most of which
were published by FSG. This spring, the Square Fish imprint of Holtzbrinck reissued
L'Engle's Time Quintet in new editions."

(via sff.net)

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

May she rest in peace, and may those who loved her find comfort in memory.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Sad news. Her work is loved by many.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Oh, jeez. The Czarina just picked up that new quintet at Barnes & Noble last week. She'll be as crushed as I am at the news.

[maribou]

Oh! Sad.

I always felt like she was secretly my extra grandmother.

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

I remember I had to wait for months at the library for my name to come to the top of the list to read A Wrinkle in Time -- fortunately a classmate, Bill Gutermuth, had his own copy and lent it to me before I finally got the notice from the Saint Matthews branch of the Louisville Public library...

It wasn't until I was in graduate school, and ran across the first volume of her Crosswicks Journal, that I learned there had been sequels to it, and that she had written so much else that was of interest. Jaelle, who was so kind to me in my first months at alt.callahans, knew her personally, if I recall correctly. I will miss her.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Strange, consider how much I have always read, but I didn't encounter her work until we got Wrinkle and others for the boys. Parenthood has strange side-effects.