We stood in line for an hour afterward to get her to sign our books. Later I realized that I should have bought new copies of A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door for her to sign, instead of the old paperbacks I brought. Sigh. They are two of very few author-signed books that I own. She was one of my favorites and I read those books (and her others) over and over growing up. She past away at the age of 88 last Friday. I look forward to meeting her on the other side.
More to read on Madeleine L'Engle:
- NYTimes obit
- The Hartford Courant
- New York Magazine's Vulture blog
- John Podhoretz at The Corner (part of The National Review)
Thanks to ChickenSpaghetti for these great links.
3 comments:
Thanks for posting the links. I find it very sad that she died in a nursing home, after caring for her mother and husband at home until they died, and after writing characters who abhorred the very notion of going to a nursing home. I do hope she wasn't alone, at the end.
I loved her books so much. I met her when I was fifteen. I wrote a post about her too ...
I wrote her an adoring letter when I was 11 and received a nice note back. I think she is still here with us. Today I was at a meeting where there was a chronological discrepancy on the agenda, and the person leading the meeting said, "We must have had a tesseract."
I'm pretty sure her family was with her. It wasn't publicized but she as been very unwell for a while.
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