Madeleine L'Engle is perhaps best recognized as the author of "A Wrinkle in
Time," the enduring milestone work of fantasy fiction that won the 1963 John
Newbery Medal for excellence in children's literature and has enthralled
millions of readers for the past fifty years. But to those who knew her well,
L'Engle was much more besides: a larger-than-life persona, an inspiring mentor,
a strong-willed matriarch, a spiritual guide, and a rare friend. In "Listening
for Madeleine," the renowned literary historian and biographer Leonard S. Marcus
reveals Madeleine L'Engle in all her complexity through a series of incisive
interviews with the people who knew her most intimately. Vivid