Abigail Santamaria is working on the first fully-sourced adult biography of Madeleine L’Engle, which will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Madeleine’s publisher for more than fifty years. With this contribution in honor of the 100th anniversary of Madeleine’s birth, she gives us a brief taste of the full life story to come. It […]
Dear Ones, Good news! New editions of four titles come out September 18, 2018! The Rock that is Higher: Story as Truth with a foreword by Sarah Bessey Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation with a foreword by Addie Zierman Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places with a foreword […]
Sarah Arthur’s forthcoming A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle is available for pre-order now and in stores on August 7th. It’s a wonderful exploration of the impact Madeleine L’Engle has had on numerous writers and artists. Madeleine’s granddaughter Charlotte (co-author of Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in […]
Dear ones, The past few months have been incredibly busy in the world of Madeleine L’Engle! “A Wrinkle in Time” was released in theaters on February 26, 2018. The film was a long time coming to the big screen and Ava DuVernay hit a new milestone as the film’s director; according to TIME, “Wrinkle will make […]
Madeleine’s granddaughters Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy share their reactions to seeing the movie adaptation for the first time. It happened. Earlier this week we were part of the celebration in Hollywood for the premiere of Ava Duvernay’s interpretation of our grandmother’s beloved classic, A Wrinkle in Time. We won’t leak any spoilers here, […]
Dear Ones, When we began writing Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters, we didn’t know 2018 was going to be so full of good L’Engle news, and now the book and the film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time are just a few weeks apart. We wanted […]
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” ― Madeleine L’Engle There’s still time to enter Macmillan’s giveaway celebrating Madeleine L’Engle’s birthday! Enter by 12/25 to win a #WrinkleInTime movie poster, a hardcover of the movie edition, AND an advance copy of BECOMING MADELEINE. Click here. […]
“Because we fail to listen to people’s stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.” — Madeleine L’Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys Into Being Human Listening is a creative act: it takes great imagination to be able to step into someone else’s world, into their truth. We not only need stories to survive, we need […]
Touché, Coquey, Brillig, Chess, Sputnik, Daisy, Thomas, Narcissus (Cissie), Echo, Heidi, Oliver, Manchester Guardian (Gardie), Letitia, Hans Sachs and Percy (canaries), Tyrrell, Timothy, Titus, Tybalt, Tesseract, Thucydides, Sheats and Kelley, Dr. Charlotte Tyler (Doc), Antinouis (Tino), Tatiana. These are the names of some of the L’Engle/Franklin family pets over the years (dogs in italics). I […]
My grandmother, Madeleine L’Engle, has always been a source of inspiration for me — from my own writing, to my obsession with the metaphysical, and to my teaching and mentoring. I’d always wanted to tell her story, and had fooled around with different ways of telling it – (at the end of her life I […]