Madeleine L'Engle (Photo Credit: Sigrid Estrada)
Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007) was an American author of young adult fiction, Christian fiction, science fiction, poetry and non-fiction. She is the author of the Time Quintet and Austin Family series. She started writing when she was eight years old, keeping a journal. Because she was shy, clumsy as a child, she was considered to be stupid by her teachers, causing her to spend more time reading and writing. After a career that was not going well financially, L’Engle was strongly considering retiring from writing on her 40th birthday, but soon came up with the idea for what would become her best-known work, A Wrinkle in Time. The young adult novel won the Newbery Award.

Madeleine L’Engle’s first novel was The Small Rain, published in 1945. She would continue writing until her death in 2007; her final original work being the non-fiction book The Joys of Love. Below is a list of Madeleine L’Engle’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Katherine Forrester Vigneras Books

Publication Order of Camilla Dickinson Books

Camilla Dickinson / Camilla(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Live Coal in the Sea(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Austin Family Chronicles Books

Meet the Austins(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Moon by Night(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Young Unicorns(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Ring of Endless Light(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Anti-Muffins(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Troubling a Star(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Full House(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
When reading this series in chronological order, Troubling a Star and The Anti-Muffins are reversed.

Publication Order of Time Quintet Books

A Wrinkle in Time(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Wind in the Door(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Swiftly Tilting Planet(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Many Waters(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Acceptable Time(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Intergalactic P.S. 3(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Time Quintet Graphic Novels

A Wrinkle in Time(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of O'Keefe Family Books

The Arm of the Starfish(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dragons in the Waters(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A House Like a Lotus(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Crosswicks Journals Books

A Circle of Quiet(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Irrational Season(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Genesis Books

And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sold into Egypt: Joseph's Journey into Human Being(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Ilsa(1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
And Both Were Young(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Winter's Love(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Love Letters(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dance in the Desert(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Other Side of the Sun(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Weather of the Heart(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Certain Women(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Fact of the Matter(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Madeleine L’Engle Short Story Collections

Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ladder of Angels(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cry Like a Bell(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sphinx at Dawn: Two Stories(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
WinterSong (With: Luci Shaw)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
101st Miracle: Early Short Stories(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Moment of Tenderness(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Madeleine L’Engle Standalone Plays

The Journey with Jonah(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Madeleine L’Engle Picture Books

Moses, Prince of Egypt(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Other Dog(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Madeleine L’Engle Non-Fiction Books

Prayers for Sunday(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Everyday Prayers(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Walking on Water: Personal Reflections(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Spiritual Values in Children's Literature (With: Avery Brooke)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
From This Day Forward(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Glorious Impossible(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anytime Prayers(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Spiritual Places(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections (With: Carole F. Chase)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Friends for the Journey (With: Luci Shaw)(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mothers & Daughters(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
My Own Small Place: Developing the Writing Life(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends: Partners in Prayer(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mothers and Sons(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life (With: Carole F. Chase)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Joys of Love(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Luci Shaw Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Anthologies

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Notes: The novel Camilla Dickinson was also published as Camilla. WinterSong and Friends for the Journey were co-authored with Luci Shaw. Trailing Clouds of Glory was co-authored by Avery Brooke. Mothers & Sons and Mothers & Daughters were co-authored by Maria Rooney. Glimpses of Grace and Madeleine L’Engle Herself were co-authored by Carole F. Chase.

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Madeleine L’Engle Synopsis: In Camilla by Madeleine L’Engle, Camilla Dickinson is a 15 year-old who has had an easy life, but now her parents are starting to act strange towards eachother and fighting over her. Camilla is caught between the two. She soon meets her best friend’s brother, Frank, who lets her know she’s not alone.

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