mentalflossr: How ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Changed Sci-Fi Forever Madeleine L'Engle sat in fr
mentalflossr:How ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Changed Sci-Fi ForeverMadeleine L'Engle sat in front of her typewriter in the Tower, her private workspace in her family’s isolated, 200-year-old Connecticut farmhouse. It was her 40th birthday—November 29, 1958—and she was at a crossroads. Though she had published five novels since her mid-twenties, she was far from a household name, and lately she was having trouble selling her work. She considered her thirties a “total failure” professionally. “Every rejection slip—and you could paper walls with my rejection slips—was like the rejection of me, myself, and certainly of my amour-propre,” she wrote. While her career floundered, her husband had temporarily given up his acting career and started running the local general store. -- source link