L'Angle, Madeleine

Early years

Madeline L'Engle was born on November 19, 1918 in New York . She received her name in honor of her great-grandmother. ^{[3] The} mother of the writer was also called Madeleine; she was a pianist . Her father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a writer, critic, and foreign correspondent. According to Madeleine, her father was attacked with mustard gas during World War I , resulting in damage to his lungs. Subsequently, other relatives of the writer disputed this information. ^[4] . Her maternal grandfather, Bion Barnett , was one of the founders of Barnet Bank in Jacksonville , Florida .

At the age of five, Madeleine L'Engle wrote her first story, and at the age of eight she began to keep her own diary. But these first steps in literature did not affect her success at a private school in New York , where she studied. The teachers considered her a shy, awkward and even stupid girl. Therefore, Madeleine L'Angle spent all the time reading books and writing her stories. Parents often had disputes about the upbringing of Madeleine, and as a result, the young writer had to attend various boarding schools and be supervised by governesses . The L'Engles family often moved. When they settled in a chateau near the French Alps , Madeleine L'Angle described her hope that clean air could help her father’s sick lungs. There Madeleine was sent to a Swiss boarding school. However, in 1933, the writer's grandmother became ill, and the family had to move closer to Jacksonville , Florida . Madeline L'Angle began attending another boarding school in Charleston . Her father died in 1935, but Madeleine did not manage to arrive home to say goodbye to him. ^[5]

Further Life

Madeleine L'Engle studied at Smith College from 1937 to 1941. Having graduated with honors from college, the writer moved to New York . In 1942, during the production of Anton Chekhov 's play “The Cherry Orchard, ” she met actor Hugh Franklin . A year after the publication of her first novel, Rain , Madeleine married him. In 1947, their daughter Josephine was born.

In 1952, they moved to an old farmhouse in Goshen, Connecticut . Since Franklin was no longer an actor, they purchased and equipped a small department store; Madeline was still engaged in literature. In the same year they had a son, Bion. Four years later, their friends died, leaving their seven-year-old daughter, Mary, whom the Franklins would soon adopt. In the same time period, Madeleine L'Engle led the choir at the local congregational church . ^[6]

Career

In November 1958, Madeleine L'Engle decided to put an end to writing - after she received another rejection from the publishers. "Having spent so much time at work, I still could not recoup my labors." Soon, she realized that she simply could not stop, and continued to write.

In 1959, Madeleine and his family decided to move back to New York so that her husband could continue his acting career. Before moving, the family went on a ten-week camping trip with tents, during which the writer came up with the idea of ​​her most popular book, “A Crack in Time ”. She finished this novel in 1960. Madeleine received more than three refusals to publish before giving it to John C. Farrar . The novel was printed in 1962.

From 1960 to 1966 (and then in 1989 and 1900) Madeleine L'Engle taught at St. Hilda and St. Hugh School in New York . In 1965, she worked as a volunteer in the library of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in New York. Later, for a long time, she taught literature in the same cathedral. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Madeleine L'Engle wrote dozens of books for children and adults. One of her adult books was Two-Part Invention, written after her husband's cancer death in 1986. These were the memories of her married life.

Recent years

In 1991, Madeleine L'Angle was seriously injured in a car accident. But by 1992, she had fully recovered and was ready to travel to Antarctica . Her son, Bion Franklin, died in December 1999 at the 47th year of his life. ^[7]

In recent years, Madeleine could no longer travel or educate students because of osteoporosis , which worsened after a brain hemorrhage that she suffered in 2002. She also abandoned her seminars and public appearances. After 2001, collections of her stories were published, which were not published before.

Madeline L'Engle died on September 6, 2007 in a nursing home near her home in Litchfield, Connecticut. ^[8] She is buried in the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in New York .

• The Rain (1945)
• “ Both were young ” (1949)
• “ Meet the Austins ” (1960)
• “ Crack in Time ” (1962)
• The Midnight Moon (1963)
• “ 24 days before Christmas ” (1964)
• The Young Unicorn (1968)
• “ In the Ring of Peace ” (1972)
• The Wind at the Threshold (1973)
• “The Great-Grandmother 's Summer ” (1974)
• The Irrational Period (1977)
• The Heeling Planet (1978)
• The Ring of Eternal Light (1980)
• “ Walking on Water ” (1980)
• “ Invention in two parts ” (1988)

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