Madeleine L'Engle R.I.P

[Dar]

We've lost another great one today.
Madeline L'Engle author of "A Wrinkle in Time" among others, died today.
One of my favorite books......................

[Bat]

I've never read her, but Googled and found this:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpAIlBo-eu0DGNDN7IUlqNgMY32g

I think I may just have to read her stuff.

[SongDragon]

One of our dear Connecticut authors. "A Wrinkle in Time" is just about the first chapter book for everyone in my family. My father when he was young, my sister, and I was just a bit behind my sister. That book was beautiful. I've always loved the concept of a tesseract. Though I don't read series, I've heard from my sister that this was an extremely good series. I just know I liked the book.

She will definitely be missed. A fine author and a grand lady.

Rest in peace Madeline L'Engle.

~SongDragon

[DaveM]

Her "Wrinkle" books have been with me since I was six are are perhaps the only books I have never outgrown and to which I still return from time to time. There is much in them to an older eye of faith and religious questions, but to the young and young in spirit they will stand always as testimony to the power of the human heart. Her other writings brought solace from grief, cheer out of darkness, contemplation out of complacency. Now she is one with the glorious mystery she shared with us all.

A small steal from the New York Times obituary:

“Why does anybody tell a story?” Ms. L’Engle once asked, even though she knew the answer.

“It does indeed have something to do with faith,” she said, “faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”

Tesser well, Ms. L'Engle, tesser well.