Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. She is best known for A Wrinkle in Time, a 1962 children's book that won the Newbery Medal, and for the Time Quintet series that followed it, including A Swiftly Tilting Planet and A Wind in the Door. Her science fiction and fantasy also reached into the Austin Family Chronicles with A Ring of Endless Light, and the American Library Association gave her the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1998.