Madeleine lengle author biography books

Madeleine L'Engle has published more than fifty books, including twenty-three novels, virtually all of them interconnected by recurring characters and locales. In particular, L'Engle's three major series have a consistent geography, including a number of significant fictional locations.

These generally fall into two categories:

• Fictionalized versions of real locations, such as the homes of the Murry and Austin families. They are usually based on actual places L'Engle has lived.
• Exotic locations in other countries, on other planets and elsewhere, usually with a symbolic name that relates to a major feature of the locale.

  Madeleine l'engle books in order

  These places help to illustrate the themes of their respective novels.

Major fictional locations in L'Engle's novels include the following places, grouped by the series in which they appear.

Time Quartet

On Earth

• The Murry farmhouse - Somewhere in New England. Starting and ending point for each of the books