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    Madeleine L'Engle bio 'Becoming Madeleine' is aimed at middle readers but is also interesting to adults

    Mar 06, 2018 3 minutes

    Madeleine L’Engle often said she didn’t write for children, even though her 1962 breakout book, “A Wrinkle In Time,” became a groundbreaking classic for young adult readers. In many ways, the book transcended simple labels. Heroine Meg Murry was gawky and imperfect – and smart and courageous. The plot was officially science fantasy, but drew on ageless themes from faith to physics to familial love. 

    It’s fitting, then, that , a L’Engle biography written by

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