A Wrinkle In Time

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle is a science fiction novel for young readers, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1962. The book follows Margaret “Meg” Murry, her brilliant younger brother Charles Murry, and Calvin O’Keefe on a journey across the universe to rescue Meg’s father from the clutches of a malignant presence. The novel won several children’s book awards, including the Newbery Medal (1963), the Sequoyah Book Award, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. It was also runner-up for the Hans Christian Anderson Award. The book inspired two movie adaptations from Disney (2003 and 2018), three stage plays (1990, 2010, and 2014), and an opera (1992). L’Engle was born in New York in 1918 and began writing at an early age. She received her degree in English from Smith College but struggled to get her work published for many years following. On a cross-country camping trip with her husband (Hugh Franklin) and her family, she observed the Earth’s own alien landscapes, which prompted the idea for A Wrinkle in Time. This guide follows the 1973 reprinting from Dell Books.

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