A Wrinkle in Time

PUFFIN MODERN CLASSICS A WRINKLE IN TIME

Madeleine L’Engle was born in New York City in 1918. She wrote her first story at the age of five — about a little ‘grul’. (No, it wasn’t science fiction — she was a poor speller.) She did poorly in most of her classes, she said, because she wrote reams of stories and poems when she should have been doing her schoolwork.

When she was twelve she moved to the French Alps with her parents and attended an English boarding school in Switzerland. She returned to the United States when she was fourteen, where she graduated from university with an honours degree in English. Still passionate about reading and writing, she wrote her first two published novels, and became an actress in order to improve her skills as a playwright.

Madeleine L’Engle wrote over sixty books, including A Wrinkle in Time, the first in her Time Quintet series and winner of the highly prestigious Newbery Medal.

She died in 2007, aged 88.