A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

Penguin Adult, 1995 - Fiction - 216 pages

It was a dark and stormy night when Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace and her mother came down to the kitchen for a midnight snack and were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. The unearthly stranger spoke to them and told them there was such a thing as a tesseract a wrinkle in time . . . A Wrinkle in Time winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963 tells of the adventures of Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin OKeefe as they search for Megs father, a scientist who disappeared while trying to solve the tesseract problem - - 1. A Wrinkle in Time ; 2. A Wind in the Door ; 3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet ; 4. Many Water.

About the author

Author Madeleine L'Engle was born in New York City on November 29, 1918. She graduated from Smith College. She is best known for A Wrinkle in Time (1962), which won the 1963 Newbery Medal for best American children's book. While many of her novels blend science fiction and fantasy, she has also written a series of autobiographical books, including Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage, which deals with the illness and death of her husband, soap opera actor Hugh Franklin. In 2004, she received a National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush. She died on September 6, 2007 of natural causes. Since 1976, Wheaton College in Illinois has maintained a special collection of L'Engle's papers, and a variety of other materials, dating back to 1919.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Wrinkle in Time; A Puffin book; Puffin modern classics; Yearling book
• Author: Madeleine L'Engle
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Penguin Adult, 1995
• ISBN: 0140372318, 9780140372311
• Length: 216 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic; Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / General