"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 father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a foreign correspo...

Madeleine L'Engle's writings reflect her passionate concern with major aspects of life: a happy family life, the right and responsibility of the individual to make choices, the art of writing, death, and God. Because L'Engle writes about such topics in s...

Madeleine L'Engle is a writer who resists easy classification. She has successfully published plays, poems, essays, autobiographies, and novels for both children and adults. She is probably best known for her "Time Fantasy" series of children's books, in...

Mozambican marines rescued more than 1,700 people, including 900 children, from flooding in central Mozambique, officials said.The marines used eight boats to mount the rescue operation in the central town of Buzi in the province of Sofala on Friday, where at least 28,000 people have...

Safety officials are warning about the risk of a potentially deadly release of chlorine gas unless the government requires equipment for transporting it.A safety bulletin Thursday from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board recommends that sites where rail cars unload chlorine have automatic...

Author Madeleine L'Engle, whose novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has captivated generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88. L'Engle died Thursday at a nursing home in Litchfield, said Jennifer Doerr, publicity manager for publisher Farrar,...

Just the thought alone is enough to make a Czech patriot cry in his beer.The Czech government has kicked off a privatization process that could lead to the sale of one of the state's most prized possessions: Budejovicky Budvar NP, a beloved brewery considered as...