On November 29, 1998, Madeleine L'Engle – writer, poet, theologian, visionary – celebrated her 80th birthday. This site was created in honor of that birthday. Many readers first encounter Madeleine through her classic fantasy A Wrinkle in Time. The adventure through the tesseract taken by Meg Murry, her mysterious brother Charles Wallace and their friend Calvin O'Keefe is the perfect introduction to archetypal L'Engle cosmology: time travel, magic, friendship, family love, stars, mysticism, the struggle to express uniqueness in the face of stifling authority, and individual connection to the universal.

L'Engle is a writer of fiction (for adults and for children, although she does not distinguish between the two genres), journals, theology and poetry. These pages offer a sampling of her work, as a grateful tribute and a celebration.