{"id":1128,"date":"2007-09-07T17:24:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2007-09-07T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T17:24:48","slug":"madeleine_lengle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/07\/madeleine_lengle\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine L’Engle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a bummer note on which to start the weekend: SF Signal<\/a> is repeating the news<\/a> that author Madeleine L’Engle, best known for the classic children’s story A Wrinkle in Time<\/i> and its various sequels, died last night at her home in Connecticut. She was 89, so she had a good, long life at least. And of course her books will no doubt remain in print for a long, long time to come, a form of immortality that everyone who puts words to paper dreams of achieving.<\/p>\n

I blogged some time ago about revisiting Wrinkle<\/i><\/a> when I had to write an essay on a favorite childhood book for a job interview; you can read that essay<\/a>, as well, if you’ve a mind to.<\/p>\n

You never realize how much some of those long-forgotten things from childhood really mean to you until something forcibly reminds you. A couple years ago, it was a job interview that got me thinking about Wrinkle<\/i> and its sequel, A Swiftly Tilting Planet<\/i>, which I also loved (I never got around to reading the other two<\/span>three books in the Time Quartet<\/span>Quintet, as I understand it’s called). Today, it’s the passing of the lady who created them.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> There’s a detailed obit<\/a> up now at The New York Times<\/i>, and Scalzi has pretty much summed it up<\/a> with this observation:<\/p>\n

…what a great writer she was. Her books remain; in fact, they are on my daughter’s bookshelf right now, waiting for her. I envy her that she gets to read them for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t have any children, but I understand that sentiment very well…<\/p>\n

Update Two:<\/b> Hm, it seems there are actually five<\/i> books in the “time” series: A Wrinkle in Time<\/i>, A Wind in the Door<\/i>, A Swiftly Tilting Planet<\/i>, Many Waters<\/i>, and An Acceptable Time<\/i>. Man, am I out of touch with my children’s and young adult literature!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a bummer note on which to start the weekend: SF Signal is repeating the news that author Madeleine L’Engle, best known for the classic children’s story A Wrinkle in Time and its various sequels, died last night at her home in Connecticut. She was 89, so she had a good, long life at least. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}