{"id":1254,"date":"2007-09-09T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2007\/09\/09\/madeleine-lengle-is-gone\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T08:34:34","slug":"madeleine-lengle-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2007\/09\/09\/madeleine-lengle-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine L&#8217;Engle is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so, to my great sorrow, passes one of the most senior, and certainly one of the most beloved, of YA fantasy writers: one of the first of us to break out, over the course of years, into worldwide fame, and to general agreement that she &#8220;wasn&#8217;t just writing kid stuff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She was a gifted and powerfully imaginative writer with a graceful style. Unquestionably she was an influence on me, though perhaps not in the way people might think. I read her first few books, and while in a general way I liked what she was doing, I had personal niggles about the way she was doing it. Certainly there were things about <em><a href=\"tp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wrinkle-Time-Madeleine-LEngle\/dp\/0312367546\/\">A Wrinkle in Time <\/a><\/em>and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Swiftly-Tilting-Planet-Madeleine-LEngle\/dp\/0312368569\/\">A Swiftly Tilting Planet <\/a><\/em>that made me think,<em> Hmmm&#8230; I&#8217;m not so sure about this. If I was going to do something of this sort, I&#8217;d do it<\/em> this <em>way<\/em>\u00a0 (&#8230;there you have it in a phrase, the eternal\/internal certainty that <em>they<\/em> have it right of writers everywhere&#8230;)\u00a0&#8212; and the result, somewhat later, was <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngwizards.com\/So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Wizard-Mass-Market-Edition\">So You Want to Be a Wizard<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Plainly the general similarity in themes between <em>SYWTBAW<\/em> and L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s early work has been noticed, for our books do often enough get mentioned in the same breath. It&#8217;s a development that would have astounded me if I&#8217;d known about it when I first met her. That was twenty-some years ago, when my first editor at Delacorte (where <em>SYW&#8230;<\/em> debuted) took me to a party that was being thrown by the publisher in Madeleine&#8217;s honor.\u00a0 We had a few moments to sit down and chat, after we were introduced, and I went into a strange sort of shock\/horror after a few minutes when she said to me, &#8220;By the way, I read your new one.\u00a0 I liked it very much. What&#8217;s the next one about? When are we going to see it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shock\/horror was, I now think (a) because no new writer really expects one of the greats to say something like that to them, no matter how you may daydream about it:\u00a0 (b) because up until that point I had given the idea <em>no consideration whatsoever.<\/em>\u00a0 Srsly.\u00a0 If there are now eight-going-on-nine books in the Young Wizards series, I think we can all blame L&#8217;Engle, because I went home to Philly that night thinking &#8220;Hmmmm&#8230;.&#8221;, and had a long, long look toward the Great South Bay and the Atlantic past\u00a0the Jersey wetlands as the Metroliner\u00a0headed south. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngwizards.com\/Deep-Wizardry-Mass-Market-Edition\">Deep Wizardry<\/a><\/em>, surely, has L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s shadow lying long over it. I will very much miss the sense that the woman who cast it is still just over the horizon,\u00a0still working.<\/p>\n<p>..But if life, and life after, have gone the way she expected&#8230; she still is.\u00a0 (sigh) Take care, cousin. 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