<p>Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, died Thursday at age 88. That book was one of my very favorites as a child. I read it over and over again, so enthralled that the main character, Meg, was smart and powerful. There weren’t so many smart and powerful girl characters of that sort in my era. The book spoke to me on a very deep level.</p>
<p>L’Engle has made her own tesseract through time now.</p>
<p>Oh wow! That is so sad. A Wrinkle in Time was one of my favorite books as well. I loved that book and the sequels after it. She was an amazing writer.</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as death–she’s moved on to another, better dimension.</p>
<p>No no no… A Wrinkle in Time was the first book besides Harry Potter that I truly liked. And it made my glasses cool, but I guess no one else thought so.</p>
<p>Oh no!</p>
<p>I absolutely loved her books, and I think I’ve read all or very nearly all of them. A Swiftly Tilting Planet is still probably my favorite book of all time.</p>
<p>I know she has more popular stuff. But I always liked “Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas”. Short and sweet, and gave us the idea of doing something christmasy every day of december.</p>
<p>Oh, I’ll miss her. We listened to the entire tetrology including A WRINKLE IN TIME on talking books on our vacation. We loved it.</p>
<p>A Wrinkle in Time was undoubtedly one of my favorite books as a child. Strangely enough, yesterday I decided out of the blue to read another of her books, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and found out later that day that she’d died.</p>
<p>She was incredibly unique, both as a writer and a person, and will be missed.</p>
<p>She was absolutely my daughter’s favorite author and will always hold a special place in her heart for the love of reading her books inspired her to develop.</p>
<p>I was privileged to hear her speak in my town a few years ago. She was an inspiring speaker, such a wise woman. I didn’t discover her books until adulthood, but I read the Wrinkle in Time trilogy to my boys and have read many other books of hers, as well. As a writer, I was particularly inspired by Walking on Water and the more recent Madeleine L’Engle, Herself.</p>
<p>ChrisCuber: A coincidence that belongs in one of her books and a fitting tribute!</p>
<p>I have also loved her books. But I’m afraid I didn’t realize she was still alive. I figure anybody who wrote books that I read when I was a child must be pretty ancient by now. What I especially loved about her books was that she evoked the same reaction in my kids a generation later. There are not that many books that are able to tesseract the times like that!</p>
<p>A wonderful woman and an excellent writer. I was so disappointed my kids didn’t like A Wrinkle in Time as much as I did. When I was in 7th grade, she was the writer in residence at my school… somewhere I have the comments she wrote on a short story I’d written. Insightful and kind, both of which mattered a lot to me.</p>
<p>I have to agree with the above posters. A Wrinkle in Time has always been my favorite book - since childhood. I think I owe my love of science fiction to L’Engle. I have re-read it many times & introduced it to my kids quite a few years ago. They loved it, too.</p>
<p>my daughter has read all her books except for a few like A Small Rain.
A Wrinkle in time was the first book I read as a child that made me wonder if perhaps there were other kids like me somewhere.</p>
<p>^*A Small Rain *is one of my favorites. I first heard A Wrinkle in Time being read by my cousin’s fifth grade teacher. I was visiting. I was so mesmerized I had to find that book! It was certainly the first sci-fi book I ever met. I reread all her books a few years ago, including some of the hard to find adult books.</p>