Madeleine L'Engle Summary

L'engle, Madeleine (1918—) Madeleine L'Engle wrote over two dozen books of poetry, plays, memoirs, and fiction and is credited with bringing science fiction into mainstream young-... Read more

American fiction writer Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918) is the accomplished author of numerous plays, poems, novels, and autobiographies for children and adults. She is perhaps best known for her childr... Read more

"I was born in New York City on the snowy night of November 29, 1918, shortly after the first World War, and think it's the nicest place in the world to be born in. I grew up on East 82nd Street."My f... Read more

Critical Essay by Mary Ross [The charm of "The Small Rain"] is its naturalness as a record of childhood and youth…. Miss L'Engle tells the story straightforwardly, with... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Heins [The Journey with Jonah, a dramatization of the story found in the Old Testament Book of Jonah,] amplifies the humor of the original and retains its basic meaning. Jonah,... Read more

Critical Essay by Nina Brown Baker Katherine [of "The Small Rain"], despite her quite special environment, seems typical rather than unique. Her heartaches and raptures, her yearning fo... Read more

Critical Essay by John W. Conner A generation of adolescent readers has been charmed by the many writing moods of Madeleine L'Engle; perhaps the sense of togetherness in Meet the Austins, the ... Read more

Critical Essay by John W. Conner Madeleine L'Engle is an avid spectator of life. Her word portraits of personalities she includes in A Circle of Quiet reveal a respectable ability to get into ... Read more

Critical Essay by Cynthia Benjamin There is enough adventure in "Dragons in the Waters" to make Nancy Drew and her chums squirm: a shipboard murder that could have been committed by any... Read more

Critical Essay by Jean F. Mercier The cast from the Newbery-award novel, "A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Wind in the Door" returns [in "A Swiftly Tilting Planet"]... Read more

Critical Essay by Rose Feld When does a child cease to be a child and stand in the isolation of an individual? When do parents cease being parents and become unknown human beings? These are the quest... Read more

Critical Essay by Harrison Smith A month ago J. D. Salinger told the story of what happened to a sixteen-year-old boy in the three days' interval between his dismissal from a private school an... Read more