A Fond Farewell
Posted by ovplyouth on September 10, 2007
I think most people over the age of 10 have read a book by Madeline L’Engle. I was forced, kicking and screaming, to read A Wrinkle In Time for a book report when I was in the fourth grade. Science Fiction was not for me, and I wasn’t going to like this book anymore than I liked peas and lima beans. I still won’t touch peas, but I learned to love Madeline L’Engle. On Saturday she passed away at the age of 88. Slate included a nice remembrance of her.
Although L’Engle worked at various times as a stage actress, playwright, and librarian, she was best known for her dark and beautiful children’s novels, which were predicated on the author’s “faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.” Her books matter cosmically to most everybody who is lucky enough to have read them.
The New York Times published a longer piece that shares more of her life story.
