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- NAME: Madeleine L'Engle
- OCCUPATION: Author, Poet
- BIRTH DATE: November 29, 1918
- DEATH DATE: September 06, 2007
- EDUCATION: Smith College
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
- PLACE OF DEATH: Litchfield, Connecticut
- Full Name: Madeleine L'Engle Camp
- AKA: Madeleine Franklin
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Madeleine L'Engle was chiefly a children's author known for such works as Meet the Austins and A Wrinkle in Time.
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After writing her first children's book, And Both Were Young (1949), Madeleine L’Engle began a series of juvenile fictional works about the Austin family. Then, in A Wrinkle in Time, and its three sequels, L'Engle introduced a group of young children who engage in a cosmic battle against a great evil that abhors individuality. L'Engle also wrote several books of fiction and poetry for adults.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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