Madaline lengle biography

1. L’Engle, born November 29, 1918, was the only child of artistic parents.

Her mother, Madeleine Bennett Camp, was a pianist, and her father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a critic, writer and foreign correspondent.

2. At age 12, L’Engle moved with her parents to the French Alps and attended an English boarding school.

She returned to the U.S. in 1933 and spent her high school years at a boarding school in Charleston, South Carolina.

3. As a child, L’Engle entered a poetry contest in school and won; however, her teachers didn’t believe she had written the prize-winning poem, so her mother went to school the next day carrying a stack of her daughter’s stories and poems to prove her talent.

4. L’Engle, an English major at Smith, always described herself as an average student (“I’m not an intellectual, I’m instinctual,” she once said), but her grade card shows that other than a D in Germa