"A Wrinkle in Time" author Madeleine L'Engle died yesterday.

[spacebuggy]

"A Wrinkle in Time" author Madeleine L'Engle died yesterday.  She was 88, and died of natural causes. thanks to aran ruth for posting about it, otherwise I'd probably never have known.  this book, as well as "a wind in the door," and "a swiftly tilting planet" were very important to me as a child.
I haven't read those books since I was a pre-teen!

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[hartsox]

I'm glad you posted about this, I probably wouldn't have heard otherwise. I think she was probably my introduction to science fiction... I loved those books. the one where sandy and dennys time travel back to biblical (noah's ark?) times always sticks out in my mind for some reason. it was a little different from the rest, although not necessarily better.

[spacebuggy]

Yeah, totally, one of the first sci-fi things I read too, I think i had read the Narnia Books and around the same time, the Hobbit and some a little before stuff like that maybe "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov....it was really one of the first things I read that said "hey there's something else out there besides the small town you live in..." there's a universe, and time is not actually just a straight line....and there's such a thing as spirituality that's not just what the really boring old priests and nuns mumble about in catacism class