MADELEINE L’ENGLE wrote more than sixty books, including the classic A Wrinkle in Time. Born in New York City in 1918, L’Engle was educated in Switzerland, South Carolina, and Massachusetts. She moved back to New York City hoping to become a playwright, but her career as a bestselling novelist took off after an editor read a short story of hers—“Summer Camp”—in a magazine and asked if she was working on a novel. L’Engle wrote fiction and nonfiction for adults, as well as poetry. She died in 2007.