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"Wrinkle" is Fifty
Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)
The author of more than 60 books, L'Engle's writing reflected her Christian faith and her interest in science.
“["Wrinkle"] begins, “It was a dark and stormy night,” repeating the line of a 19th-century novelist, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. “Wrinkle” then takes off. Meg Murry, with help from her psychic baby brother, uses time travel and extrasensory perception to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from a planet controlled by the Dark Thing. She does so through the power of love.
The book uses concepts that Ms. L’Engle said she had plucked from Einstein’s theory of relativity and Planck’s quantum theory, almost flaunting her frequent assertion that children’s literature is literature too difficult for adults to understand.” (Martin, Douglas. "Madeleine L’Engle, Author of the Classic ‘A Wrinkle in Time,’ Is Dead at 88." New York Times Sept 8, 2007
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