I AM MEG: The Life of Madeleine L'Engle

FAIN: FZ-287339-22

Abigail Santamaria
CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center (New York, NY 10016-4309)

Research and writing of a biography of American author Madeline L’Engle (1918 – 2007).

The first adult biography of Madeleine L’Engle (1918 – 2007), author of the Newbery Award-winning classic A Wrinkle in Time (and 60 other books), to be published by FSG, draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and exclusive access to private journals, unpublished manuscripts, and personal and editorial correspondence. One of America’s most influential and beloved writers, L’Engle stood on the shoulders of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Lucy Maud Montgomery, published alongside contemporaries including Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, and Katherine Paterson, and transformed the landscape of possibility for women writers and female protagonists by making way for Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, J.K. Rowling, and others. This narrative literary biography tells the story of her life, work, and influence in the context of 20th century women authors of dystopic fiction and literature for young people.

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