That is sad. I never read any of her books, but I always remembered the A Wrinkle in Time poster in my elementary school library.
My roommate's a huge fan of hers. She keeps recomending this book, whose title I can't remember about a set of twins going back to Noah's time.

Moxie, the book you're referring to is called Many Waters. I loved L'Engles work when I was younger (I'm still fond), she was one of my absolute favourite authors!

Oh, this makes me so sad! I read all of her books in elementary school...Madeleine L'Engle and Zilpha Keatley Snyder were some of my only companions back in the day. "A Wind In the Door" more or less changed my life. She was such an amazing writer.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Is that the author of The Egypt Game? I loved that book

L' Engle is one of the most interesting female authors I've ever read.

She was clever and her characters interesting and while I don't really completely approve of Meg's entire identity as "Daughter/girlfriend/wife/mother" she was still given so much more to say and do and feel than the average sci-fi female character, let alone a protagonist.

You'll be missed, Madeleine!

I am a huge fan.

A good quote:

"Because of the very nature of the world as it is today our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying, dissipating universe, that we can help our children avoid by providing them with “explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.�"

Moxie - yes, "The Egypt Game" is probably her best known book, but my favorites were a sci-fi/fantasy trilogy that has spent decades in obscurity and out of print (The Green Sky series), and "The Changeling." Her work fairly glitters from all the magical realism, and I still curl up with battered copies of her books on snowed-in days. If you liked "The Egypt Game," track down some used copies of her lesser-known stuff. A lot of it is out of print, but it's worth the search if you ask me.

Cool, orangepeacock, I'll definitely look up more of her stuff. *Le sigh* I loved The Egypt Game.
What other books did people like?
I loved Christopher Pike's scary stuff and the Sideways Stories from Wayside School series.

I loved her books, very sad that she died...

Also, Smith College graduates, represent!

My cat is named Meg. The Wrinkle in Time books made me who I am. Probably because I read them each, like, seven hundred times. When I was nine. That'll do that to a person.

I don't know if I'm more grateful to any other writer than L'Engle.

My cat is named Meg. The Wrinkle in Time books made me who I am. Probably because I read them each, like, seven hundred times. When I was nine. That'll do that to a person.

I don't know if I'm more grateful to any other writer than L'Engle.

I, too, loved those books. (I even got my father to read them. He was a science fiction fan when he was younger, but stopped reading fiction when he grew up and became a workaholic with no time for novels.)

Doug S., I'm turning into one of those. It sucks.

I LOVED the Wrinkle in Time series, and was extremely sad to hear of the death of the author. (Actually, first I was surprised she was still alive, and then I was sad she died.) I loved Meg too. I especially identify with Meg now, since one half of my hair seems to have gone curly and the other half stayed straight. It's a frustration Meg and I share. :)

Man.

L'Engle shaped my life, too--with her bookA Ring of Endless Light. I identified so much with Vicki Austin, who is still one of my favorite literary characters of all time (and I'm working on a master's in English). I read that book probably three times a year from age 12 to age 20, and just read it again this past summer, at age 23.

There's something timeless and touching about her writing. Thankfully that will live on.

A Wind in the Door is one my favorite books of all time, and A Wrinkle in Time contains one of my favorite literary themes - a dystopia. I've been reading about them forever it seems :) Plus I feel that Meg made a very strong female character, in genre where that is nearly non-existent (besides some amazons who lack personality or depth)Madeleine L'Engle has always meant a lot to me, and it really makes me sad to see her go.

Ditto on all these comments - orangepeacock, I'm determined to find this series you mention!

Had I known she was in a nursing home not too far away, I would have at least sent a gift. :(

This has not been a good year for the my favorite authors. First Kurt, now this.

My heart hurts.

I was so sad when I heard she'd died. I had to run out to the library before it closed to get A Wrinkle in Time.

This is so sad. I started reading her books as a pre-teen, and I loved them so much. They offered a wonderful escape from the hell that can be middle school :) One of my favorites was "A Ring of Endless Light". Her female protagonists were strong but yet still flawed, realistic.

I heard Madeleine L'Engle speak at the Calvin College Festival of Faith & Writing when I was about fifteen (so that would have been . . . 1996?). Amazing presence. I'm so glad I got to hear her in person. I read her fiction as a young teenager and her memoirs as a young adult. I particularly appreciated The Two-Part Invention, about her marriage, family, and the illness and death of her husband Hugh.

I'm so glad we will be able to continue enjoying her books for the rest of our own lives!