"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...

Public League playoff football action will resume today in the Intra-City and Chicago Conferences. In Intra-City semifinal action, Orr takes on Austin in a 3:30 p.m. kickoff at Hanson Stadium while Senn faces Clark in a 5 p.m. start at Lane Stadium. ...

With the opening this year of the 800-room Hilton Austin Convention Center Hotel and the expansion of the convention center, which is less than two years ago, Austin continues to evolve into an exciting new meetings and conventions destination. A lively music and...

Woody Williams won his third straight decision and Ty Wigginton hit a solo home run as the Houston Astros beat the Washington Nationals 3-2 Wednesday night.Lance Berkman added an RBI triple as Houston snapped a three-game losing streak. The Astros beat Washington for just the...

Madeleine L'Engle's Meet the Austins … deserves notice because it takes one small step towards filling the yawning spiritual gap in novels for the young. As unfashionable as covered knees, it explores, from the secure anchorage of a happy American family, the meaning of life and death. (p. 702)

Elaine Moss, in The Spectator (© 1966 by The Spectator; reprinted by permission of The Spectator), June 3, 1966.

[Meet the Austins is one of the first family-centered books] since Little Women to handle the death of a loved one so well (p. 462) The children's ups and downs, a serious brother-sister conflict, some funny and some grave situations—all develop against a background of family love. This is a fine family story, as unusual and provocative throughout the whole book as is its first chapter. (p. 463)