I suppose autumn. I love the changing of the leaves. I love the autumn goldenrod, the Queen Anne’s lace.
What was the original title of A Wrinkle in Time?
“Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which.”
How did you get the idea for A Wrinkle in Time?
We were living in the country with our three kids on this dairy farm. I started reading what Einstein wrote about time. And I used a lot of those principles to make a universe that was creative and yet believable.
How hard was it to get A Wrinkle in Time published?
I was kept hanging for two years. Over and over again I received nothing more than the formal, printed rejection slip. Eventually, after twenty-six rejections, I called my agent and said, “Send it back. It’s too different. Nobody’s going to publish it.” He sent it back, but a few days later a friend of my mother’s insisted that I meet John Farrar, the publisher. He liked the manuscript, and eventually decided to publish it. My first editor was Hal Vursell.
Which of your characters is most like you?
None of them. They’re all wiser than I am.
THE L’ENGLE CAST OF CHARACTERS
Books featuring the Murry-O’Keefes:
A Wrinkle in Time (WT)
A Wind in the Door (WD)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (STP)
Many Waters (MW)
The Arm of the Starfish (AS)
Dragons in the Waters (DW)
A House Like a Lotus (HL)
An Acceptable Time (AT)
Books featuring the Austins:
Meet the Austins (MA)
The Moon by Night (MN)
The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas (TDC)
The Young Unicorns (YU)
A Ring of Endless Light (REL)
Troubling a Star (TS)
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Contents
A Wrinkle in Time
Copyright
Dedication
An Appreciation by Anna Quindlen
Chapter 1: Mrs Whatsit
Chapter 2: Mrs Who
Chapter 3: Mrs Which
Chapter 4: The Black Thing
Chapter 5: The Tesseract
Chapter 6: The Happy Medium
Chapter 7: The Man with Red Eyes
Chapter 8: The Transparent Column
Chapter 9: IT
Chapter 10: Absolute Zero
Chapter 11: Aunt Beast
Chapter 12: The Foolish and the Weak
A Wind in the Door
Copyright Page
OTHER NOVELS IN THE TIME QUINTET
Epigraph
1 Charles Wallace’s Dragons
2 A Rip in the Galaxy
3 The Man in the Night
4 Proginoskes
5 The First Test
6 The Real Mr. Jenkins
7 Metron Ariston
8 Journey into the Interior
9 Farandolae and Mitochondria
10 Yadah
11 Sporos
12 A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Copyright
Dedication
1 In this fateful hour
2 All Heaven with its power
3 The sun with its brightness
4 The snow with its whiteness
5 The fire with all the strength it hath
6 The lightning with its rapid wrath
7 The winds with their swiftness
8 The sea with its deepness
9 The rocks with their steepness
10 The earth with its starkness
11 All these I place
12 Between myself and the powers of darkness
Many Waters
Copyright
Copyright Notice
Dedication
1. Virtual particles and virtual unicorns
2. Pelican in the wilderness
3. Japheth’s sister Yalith
4. Grandfather Lamech and Grandfather Enoch
5. The nephilim
6. Adnarel and the quantum leap
7. The seraphim
8. Oholibamah, Japheth’s wife
9. Mahlah’s time, Lamech’s time
10. The song of the stars
11. Many waters cannot quench love
12. Neither can the floods drown it
Other Novels in the Time Quintet
An Acceptable Time
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Other Novels in the Time Quintet
Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech: The Expanding Universe
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