Swiftly Tilting Planet

Summary: Madeleine L'Engle is the author of many acclaimed and popular books for children and adults, including novels, collections of essays, plays, and poetry. She is perhaps best known for the Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its companions, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters. She has also written An Acceptable Time, which follows the further adventures of the Murry family. A Ring of En...dless Light, featuring Vicky Austin, was a Newbery Honor Book. Other books in the Austin series are Meet the Austins, The Moon by Night, The Young Unicorns, and Troubling a Star. Madeleine L'Engle is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors her lifetime contribution to books for young adults. Madeleine L'Engle lives and works in New York City. [read more]