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Madeleine L'Engle (b. November 29, 1918 New York City, New York – September 6, 2007) was an American author best known for the award winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. L'Engle spent her youth in New York City devoting her imagination to writing poetry and stories. At 12, she moved with her parents to the French Alps and attending an English boarding school in Switzerland. She returned to the United States for high school at Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina. She went on to Smith college where she studied English and continued to pursue her writing.
Following graduation, she moved to New York where she worked in theater as an actress and devoted her spare time to writing. She published her first novel, The Small Rain, a semi autobiographical novel about the life of a talented young pianist, Katherine Foster. Her second novel Ilsa was published in 1946.
L'Engle met and married Hugh Franklin while serving as an understudy in Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard. They had a daughter and moved to Connecticut to raise their family in a farming village. They revived a general store, and Engle continued her writing. Nine years later, L'Engle and family moved back to New York City where her husband resumed his acting career and L'Engle continued her writing career.
L'Engle died on September 6, 2007, leaving behind her daughters Josephine and Maria and five grandchildren. She had previously lost her husband, Hugh in 1986 and son Bion Barnett.
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