Becoming Madeleine by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Lena Roy

  Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by her Granddaughters by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Lena Roy. Farrar Straus Giroux (Macmillan), 2018. Biography/Children's.

Using family records, diaries, photographs, and stories, the authors have put together a loving tribute to their own grandmother, the famed author of both children's and adult books. Madeleine L'Engle knew early that she wanted to be a writer and make her mark on the world with her words. She was talented and determined, practicing her craft and not taking rejection personally. Of course, these women remember a loving grandmother, but the book is really about Madeleine's younger life and is appropriate for both children's and young adult readers. It tells about Madeleine L'Engle's younger writing and follows her early successes. Madeleine's life was not all sunshine, but she used her writing to make sense of the world and to give hope to her characters and her family, too.