Madeleine L’Engle, the well known author has died at the age of 88. She breathed her last at a nursing home in Litchfield and as per her publicity manager the death was natural. The author has written more then 60 books, which include from poetry to fantasies to memoirs. The author due to her book, ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ has been often classified as children author.
Madeleine L’Engle Camp was born in New York City to a pianist mother and a father who was a writer, a critic and a foreign correspondent also. Madeleine wrote her first story at the age of five and at the age of eight, she was already keeping a journal. She won a number of awards for her various stories. Some of the notable achievements of hers are a USM Medallion from the University of Southern Mississippi (1978), the Smith College Award ‘for service to community or college which exemplifies the purposes of liberal arts education’ in 1981, the Sophia Award for distinction in her field (1984), the Regina Medal (1985), the ALAN Award for outstanding contribution to adolescent literature, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English (1986), and the Kerlan Award (1990). She was also named a Dame in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 972. Not only these, she has received a dozen of honorary degrees from many universities and colleges.
However, the author never agreed of being a children author. In an interview in 1993 to the Associated Press, she said,
In my dreams, I never have an age. I never write for any age group in mind. When people do, they tend to be tolerant and condescending and they don’t write as well as they can write. When you underestimate your audience, you’re cutting yourself off from your best work.
Her books like A Wrinkle in Time, A Ring of Endless Light, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Plan and Many Waters are well known in the world of literature.
Source: USAtoday
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