As Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling are feted in almost every major magazine as the stars of the upcoming “A Wrinkle in Time” film adaptation, it seems surprising that it took 56 years for the classic book to hit the big screen.
But the real surprise is that the book was published at all.
“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle took a torturous path up to the point it was finally published in 1962, according to the author’s granddaughters in the new memoir “Becoming Madeleine” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy wrote the young-adult biography as a way to honor what would have been L’Engle’s 100th birthday. (The author died in 2007, on the cusp of turning 87.) “She was the woman who sang at the top of her lungs, who played Ping-Pong with gusto and who had us all read Shakespeare aloud, cuddled up in her four-poster bed,” they write.
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