Madeleine L'Engle, RIP

Jesse Walker | September 10, 2007

The author of A Wrinkle in Time and couple dozen other interconnected novels has died. I read a bunch of her books as a kid, but don't expect any informed commentary here: All I remember is little scenes and moments from them, mostly stripped of their contexts and scrambled up together. I have hardly any memory of the storylines they appeared in, aside from the fact that some were science fiction and some were straight realism and some unexpectedly shifted from one to the other. But I remember enjoying them at the time.

When a film of A Wrinkle in Time was released last year, Newsweek asked the author if it met her expectations.

"Oh, yes," she replied. "I expected it to be bad, and it is."

Rest in peace.