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Madeleine L'Engle lived in New York and wrote over 60 books for children, including A WRINKLE IN TIME, the first in her Time Quintet series and winner of the highly prestigious Newbury Medal. She died in 2007, aged 88.

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The winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, "A Wrinkle in Time" kicks off LEngles five-book tale of the Murry family, beginning with Megs first journey through space and time, all the way through to her daughter Pollys adventures in ancient history in "An Acceptable Time.

When Dr. Camilla Dickinson's teenage granddaughter raises questions about her birth, long-kept secrets rise to the surface to test the faith, love, and loyalty of the Xanthakos family. This skillful, gripping tale shuttles between past and troubled present, providing clues to a multigenerational mystery. A riveting and psychologically complex story showcasing the keen eye and deep compassion that have made L'Engle one of this century's premier...

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This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home.

As revealed in an Introduction by the author's granddaughter, the protagonist Elizabeth is close to an autobiographical portrait of L'Engle herself as a young woman--"vibrant, vulnerable, and yearning for love and all that life has to offer.

Meg's father mysteriously disappears after experimenting with the fifth dimension of time travel. Determined to rescue him, Meg and her friends must outwit the forces of evil on a heart-stopping journey through space and time. A commemorative edition with an Introduction by the author. A Newbery Medal winner.

Madeleine L'Engle reveals what life was like during her forty-year marriage to actor Hugh Franklin. She details their lean years when she was a fledgling writer and he a struggling actor, and their struggle with Hugh's cancer and his subsequent death.

This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more about living than dying.

The book is especially valuable for it's an exploration of L'Engle's life as a professional woman, wife, mother, and grandmother--.Publisher's Weekly

Providing inspiration and guidance for each day of the year, this collection of 365 writings--"chosen superbly from L'Engle's rich repository of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry" ("Publishers Weekly")--is filled with spiritual insight and personal observations that are by turns intimate, practical, and provocative.

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes... -Madeleine L'Engle, from The Rock That Is HigherStory captures our hearts and feeds our imaginations. It reminds us who we are and where we came from. Story gives meaning and direction t...