Dragons in the Waters | About the Author
Madeleine L'Engle was born Madeleine L'Engle Camp on November 29, 1918, in New York City. The only child of a well-known journalist and a pianist, she had an unconventional childhood, surrounded from her earliest days by her parents' highly creative friends. She enjoyed solitude and developed a richly imaginative inner life, which she first began to translate into stories when she was five years old. When she was a teenager, her father's poor health forced the family to move to Switzerland, where she attended a boarding school, an experience which she loathed. Nevertheless, her time at...
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