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 Madeleine L'Engle Camp Franklin, 88, of Goshen, CT and New York City, died Thursday, September 6th 2007. Born November 29, 1918, in New York City, to Charles Camp and Madeleine Barnett Camp, she was educated in Switzerland and South Carolina.
Madeleine L'Engle studied English at Smith College, where she read the classics and focused on creative writing. She graduated with honors and moved into a Greenwich Village apartment in New York. She worked in the theater, where Equity union pay and a flexible schedule afforded her the time to write.
Madeline L'Engle Camp was the author of over 60 books, and her works reflect her strong interest in modern science: tesseracts are featured prominently in A Wrinkle in Time, mitochondrial DNA in A Wind in the Door, and organ regeneration in The Arm of the Starfish.
The award-winning book, "A Wrinkle in Time", was rejected by 26 publishers before editors at Farrar, Straus & Giroux read it and enthusiastically accepted it. It proved to be her masterpiece, winning the John Newbery Medal as the best children's book of 1963 and selling, so far, eight million copies. "A Wrinkle in Time" is now in its 69th printing, but has also been one of the most banned books in the United States. Religious conservatives have accused Madeline L'Engle Camp Franklin of offering an inaccurate portrayal of God and nurturing in the young an unholy belief in myth and fantasy.
Resources:
http://www.madeleinelengle.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?_r=1&em&ex=1189569600&en=52224855097f3bc6&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_L'Engle
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