{"product_id":"9780440405481","title":"Many Waters (Time Quintet Series #4)","description":" \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author: Madeleine L'Engle is the author of more than forty-five books for all ages, among them the beloved \u003ci\u003eA Wrinkle in Time,\u003c\/i\u003e awarded the Newbery Medal; \u003ci\u003eA Ring of Endless Light,\u003c\/i\u003e a Newbery Honor Book; \u003ci\u003eA Swiftly Tilting Planet,\u003c\/i\u003e winner of the American Book Award; and the Austin family series of which \u003ci\u003eTroubling a Star\u003c\/i\u003e is the fifth book. L'Engle was named the 1998 recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards award, honoring her lifetime contribution in writing for teens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMs. L'Engle was born in 1918 in New York City, late in her parents' lives, an only child growing up in an adult world. Her father was a journalist who had been a foreign correspondent, and although he suffered from mustard gas poisoning in World War I, his work still took him abroad a great deal. Her mother was a musician; the house was filled with her parents' friends: artists, writers, and musicians. \"Their lives were very full and they didn't really have time for a child,\" she says. \"So I turned to writing to amuse myself.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen she was 12, Ms. L'Engle moved with her family to the French Alps in search of purer air for her father's lungs. She was sent to an English boarding school --\"dreadful,\" she says. When she was 14, her family returned to America and she went to boarding school once again, Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina--which she loved. When she was 17, her father died.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMs. L'Engle spent the next four years at Smith College. After graduating cum laude, she and an assortment of friends moved to an apartment in Greenwich Village. \"I still wanted to be a writer; I always wanted to be a writer, but Ihad to pay the bills, so I went to work in the theater,\" she says.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTouring as an actress seems to have been a catalyst for her. She wrote her first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Small Rain,\u003c\/i\u003e while touring with Eva Le Gallienne in \u003ci\u003eUncle Harry\u003c\/i\u003e. She met Hugh Franklin, to whom she was married until his death in 1986, while they were rehearsing \u003ci\u003eThe Cherry Orchard,\u003c\/i\u003e and they were married on tour during a run of \u003ci\u003eThe Joyous Season,\u003c\/i\u003e starring Ethel Barrymore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMs. L'Engle retired from the stage after her marriage, and the Franklins moved to northwest Connecticut and opened a general store. \"The surrounding area was real dairy farmland then, and very rural. Some of the children had never seen books when they began their first year of school,\" she remembers. The Franklins raised three children--Josephine, Maria, and Bion. Ms. L'Engle's first book in the Austin quintet, \u003ci\u003eMeet the Austins,\u003c\/i\u003e an ALA Notable Children's Book, has strong parallels with her life in the country. But she says, \"I identify with Vicky rather than with Mrs. Austin, since I share all of Vicky's insecurities, enthusiasms, and times of sadness and growth.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen, after a decade in Connecticut, the family returned to New York, Ms. L'Engle rejoiced. \"In some ways, I was back in the real world.\" Mr. Franklin resumed acting, and became well known as Dr. Charles Tyler in the television series \u003ci\u003eAll My Children.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTwo-Part Invention\u003c\/i\u003e is Ms. L'Engle's touching and critically acclaimed story of their long and loving marriage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Time quintet--\u003ci\u003eA Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Acceptable Time\u003c\/i\u003e--are among her most famous books, but it took years to get a publisher to accept \u003ci\u003eA Wrinkle in Time.\u003c\/i\u003e \"Every major publisher turned it down. No one knew what to do with it,\" she says. When Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Giroux finally accepted the manuscript, she insisted that they publish it as a children's book. It was the beginning of their children's list.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, Ms. L'Engle lives in New York City and Connecticut, writing at home and at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where she is variously the librarian and the writer-in-residence. \"It depends from day-to-day on what they want to call me. I do keep the library collection--largely theology, philosophy, a lot of good reference books--open on a volunteer basis.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Children's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011781574896,"sku":"9780440405481","price":6.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780440405481_p0.jpg?v=1763702313","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780440405481","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}