But in 50 years of publication, the book has never been illustrated. This is page-turning eye candy of the highest order.” –James Patterson The world already knows Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O’Keefe, and the three Mrs–Who, Whatsit, and Which–the memorable and wonderful characters who fight off a dark force and save our universe in the Newbery Award-winning classic A Wrinkle in Time. Incidentally, HG Wells and Jules Verne both have craters on the Moon named after them.A graphic novel adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture.”Know somebody who hasn’t met Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who or Mrs Which? Larson’s colorful panels bring Madeleine L’Engle’s brilliant time-travel favorite to life in an exciting new way. There's a crater on Mercury named after L'Engle.Wheaton College in Illinois maintains a special collection of L'Engle's papers and other materials, dating back to 1919, a year after the author's birth.They were The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting, Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs (a biography of Louisa May Alcott), Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James, and the historical children's books of Hendrik Willem van Loon. In her Newbery Award acceptance speech, L'Engle referenced several books as influential in her childhood.Other winners include Susan Cooper, Ellen Raskin, Katherine Paterson, Lois Lowry, and Neil Gaiman. This award is given to authors for an outstanding contribution to American literature for children. A Wrinkle in Time won the Newbery Award in 1963.A Wrinkle in Time has a famous opening line - "It was a dark and stormy night." This line was first used by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.In geometry, the tesseract is a four-dimensional analog representation of a cube. A Wrinkle in Time was rejected by dozens of publishers, many of whom thought the plotline was too complex for children.A Wrinkle in Time is first part of a quintet - the other titles are A Wind in the Door (published in 1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), Many Waters (1986), and An Acceptable Time (1989).They had two children and adopted a third. L'Engle married actor Hugh Franklin in 1946.
In 1982, a sequel was published, called A Severed Wasp, in which Katherine appears as an elderly widow. Published in 1945, it is a semi-autobiographical novel about the many difficulties faced by pianist Katherine Forrester between the ages of 10 and 19. L'Engle's first novel was called The Small Rain.
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