by Sarah Arthur Extended family is on my mind this time of year. Not only is Thanksgiving around the corner, but also I recently helped co-direct the L’Engle Writing Retreat in Litchfield, CT, mere miles from Madeleine’s beloved farmhouse, Crosswicks.  The rambling, 250-year-old building has been the private residence for many generations of Madeleine’s family […]

by Abigail Santamaria “Tell me a story, Mother…” Madeleine begged many mornings of her childhood, climbing into her parents’ bed before breakfast. Goldilocks and nursery rhymes didn’t interest her—she wanted stories about the Madeleines who came before. The great-grandmother after whom she was named—Madeleine Saunders L’Engle, who died the year before her namesake was born—had […]

by J. A. Nielsen On a cold day in winter, there is nothing I’d rather do than wrap up in a warm quilt with a good book. Maybe a cup of tea. Perhaps that is why I first connected with “Meg Murry” so strongly. In the first lines of A Wrinkle in Time, when the storm […]

Dear Ones, Today is Madeleine and Hugh’s wedding anniversary (they were married in 1946), and it is also the pub date of a new book: Charles Wadsworth Camp and World War I: War’s Dark Frame and History of the 305th Field Artillery. Charles was a journalist, critic, novelist, and playwright, and this new volume is […]

by Bill Dunford One of the first times I traveled mentally to the stars, it was Madeleine L’Engle who took me there. I was nine years old when I discovered that her skill allowed the flat pages of A Wrinkle in Time to take on a third dimension – then a fourth and a fifth […]