Section IX: Paints of the Writer’s Palette: Words and Symbols
Selection Title
Original Source
Page
section title page
Walking on Water
37
Words and Silence
Penguins and Golden Calves
135
A Love Affair with Words
Walking on Water
37
Ousia, Ananda, and Namasté
And It Was Good
19
The Value of Words
Penguins and Golden Calves
142
Finding the Real Meaning
Penguins and Golden Calves
141-2
Words Can Hurt or Bless
Penguins and Golden Calves
136
Language Defines Us
A Circle of Quiet
149
We Think Because We Have Words
Walking on Water
38-9
Dangerous Losses
WC 26
Avoid Limiting Vocabulary
A Circle of Quiet
148
Word Meanings Then and Now
Bright Evening Star
56
True Virtue
The Rock That Is Higher
200-1
The Misuse of Words
WC 1
Using Language Carefully
Penguins and Golden Calves
136
Translate with Care
Walking on Water
42-3
The Destruction of Language
The Irrational Season
163
Writers Are Dangerous
The Irrational Season
164
Word Play
WC 26
Language and Theology Change
Penguins and Golden Calves
142
Transforming Language
A Stone for a Pillow
110
Avoid Making Idols of Words
Penguins and Golden Calves
141
Defining Icons
WC 1
An Icon’s Symbolism
Walking on Water
28-9
The Language of Poets
Penguins and Golden Calves
16-7
Windows to God
Penguins and Golden Calves
14
Icons Bear Reality
A Circle of Quiet
17-8
The Wonder of Stars
Penguins and Golden Calves
116
Section X: This I Know: Telling Our Story
Selection Title
Original Source
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section title page
The Rock That Is Higher
215
The Perfect Vehicle of Truth
Sold into Egypt
190-1
Inspiration from a True Story
The Rock That Is Higher
39-40
Mirrors to God’s Image
Sold into Egypt
164
Good Storytellers
WC 1
Stories Reveal Humanity
Sold into Egypt
164
Good Art Heals
WC 10
Finding Reality
And It Was Good
59-60
Story Gives Us Courage
The Rock That Is Higher
40-1
Stories Bring Meaning
Walking on Water
54
Striving Toward Truth
WC 31
Definitions of Myth
WC 1
Myths Speak to the Universal Human Spirit
WC 26
The God of Story
Walking on Water
53-4
We Must Know Our Craft
The Rock That Is Higher
103
Interdependence
Walking on Water
140
Art Is a Participatory Event
WC 10
Readers Co-Create with Artists
Walking on Water
186-7
The Reader’s Essential Role
WC 4
An Important Collaboration
Walking on Water
34-5
Co-Creators with God
And It Was Good
86
Stories Must Be Believable
Walking on Water
147
Impossible Possibilities
Sold into Egypt
204
Storytellers Search for Truth
The Rock That Is Higher
90
Fiction in Search of the Truth
Walking on Water
146-7
The Truth of Art
WC 4
Truth and Fact
The Rock That Is Higher
89-90
Writers Reveal Truth
Walking on Water
73
The Truth of Fiction
WC 113
Fairy-Tale Writers Reveal a Reality Beyond
The Rock That Is Higher
226
Children Need the Truth of Myths
A Circle of Quiet
204-5
Underwater Worlds
WC 4
Myths Help Us Find Our Way Home
The Rock That Is Higher
24
Recapturing Wonder
WC 28
Why We Tell Stories
The Rock That Is Higher
215
The Glory of Writing
WC 38
APPENDIX III
A Chronology of Madeleine L’Engle’s Life and Books
Year: 1918
Life Event:
Madeleine L’Engle Camp is born on November 29 in New York City.
Year: 1929
Life Event:
The Camps move to a château in the French Alps. Madeleine attends boarding school in Switzerland.
Year: 1933
Life Event:
Returns to the United States; lives in north Florida. Attends Ashley Hall, a boarding school in Charleston, South Carolina.
Year: 1935
Life Event:
Madeleine’s father, Charles Camp, dies.
Year: 1937
Life Event:
Madeleine enrolls in Smith College.
Year: 1941
Life Event:
Graduates from Smith, moves to New York City.
Year: 1944
Life Event:
Plays in The Cherry Orchard; meets Hugh Franklin.
Year: 1945
Publication:
The Small Rain
Year: 1946
Life Event:
Marries Hugh Franklin, January 26. The couple buys Crosswicks.
Publication:
Ilsa
Year: 1947
Life Event:
Daughter Josephine is born.
Year: 1949
Publication:
And Both Were Young
Year: 1951
Publication:
Camilla Dickinson
Year: 1952
Life Events:
Madeleine, Hugh, and Josephine move to Crosswicks.
Purchase and run a small general store.
Son Bion is born.
Year: 1956
Life Event:
Daughter Maria is adopted.
Year: 1957
Publication:
A Winter’s Love
Year: 1959
Life Event:
The Franklins leave in early spring on a 10-week cross-country camping trip before moving to New York.
Year: 1960
Life Event:
Begins teaching at St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s School.
Publication:
Meet the Austins
Year: 1962
Publication:
A Wrinkle in Time
Year: 1963
Life Event:
Wins the Newbery Medal for Wrinkle.
Publication:
The Moon by Night
Year: 1964
Publication:
The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas
Year: 1965
Life Events:
Begins working as volunteer librarian in Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Receives Sequoya Award and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Wrinkle.
Publications:
The Arm of the Starfish
Camilla (revised)
Year: 1966
Life Event:
Last year of teaching at St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s.
Publication:
The Love Letters
Year: 1967
Publication:
The Journey with Jonah
Year: 1968
Life Event:
Granddaughter Madeleine Saunders Jones Roy is born.
Publication:
The Young Unicorns
Year: 1969
Life Events:
Wins Austrian State Literary Prize for The Moon by Night.
Granddaughter Charlotte Rebecca Jones Voiklis is born.
Publications:
Dance in the Desert
Lines Scribbled on an Envelope
Year: 1971
Life Events:
Wins Austrian State Literary Prize for Camilla.
Her mother, Madeleine Camp, dies at 90.
Publication:
Year: 1972
Life Event:
Wins Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Publication:
A Circle of Quiet
Year: 1973
Publication:
A Wind in the Door
Year: 1974
Publications:
Everyday Prayers
Prayers for Sunday
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Year: 1975
Life Event:
Is invited by Clyde S. Kilby to deposit her papers and manuscripts in Special Collections part of the Buswell Library at Wheaton College in Illinois.
Year: 1976
Publication:
Dragons in the Waters
Year: 1977
Life Events:
Grandson Edward Augustus Jones is born.
Granddaughter Lena Jones hit by a truck on July 13 and survives.
Publication:
The Irrational Season
Year: 1978
Life Events:
Wins University of Southern Mississippi Medallion.
The Irrational Season is named the Seabury Lenten Selection.
Publications:
The Weather of the Heart
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Year: 1979
Life Event:
Wins the National Religious Book Award for The Weather of the Heart.
Publications:
Ladders of Angels
Year: 1980
Life Events:
Receives Newbery Honor Award for A Ring of Endless Light.
Wins American Book Award for A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Wins the National Religious Book Award for A Ladder of Angels.
Receives honorary Doctor of Letters from Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.
Publications:
The Anti-Muffins
A Ring of Endless Light
Walking on Water
Year: 1981
Life Events:
Receives Dorothy Canfield Fischer award for A Ring of Endless Light, which is also nominated for a Newbery Medal.
Receives Smith College Award for service to community or college which exemplifies the purposes of liberal arts education.
Receives Newbery Honor Award for A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Year: 1982
Life Events:
Receives the California Young Reader Medal for A Ring of Endless Light.
Receives honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.
Is made an honorary citizen of Louisville, Ke
ntucky.
Publications:
A Severed Wasp
The Sphinx at Dawn
Year: 1983
Life Events:
Receives the Colorado Children’s Book Award for A Ring of Endless Light.
Receives honorary Doctor of Letters from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Publication:
And It Was Good
Year: 1984
Life Events:
Receives honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Berkeley Divinity School in Berkeley, California.
Receives Smith College Sophia Award for distinction in her field and honorary Doctor of Literature from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.
Receives honorary Doctor of Literature from Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Publication:
A House Like a Lotus
Year: 1985
Life Events:
Receives the Regina Medal.
Makes a tape for Voice of America and speaks at the Library of Congress.
Begins two-year term as the president of the Authors Guild.
Grandson Bryson Dewing Rooney is born.
Publication:
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Year: 1986
Life Events:
Receives honorary Doctor of Lettersfrom Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Receives honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Virginia Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Receives ALAN Award for outstanding contribution to adolescent literature from the National Council of Teachers of English.
Goes with Hugh to Virgin Islands and China.
Grandson Alexander Nelson Rooney is born.
Hugh dies on September 26.
Publications:
A Stone for a Pillow
Many Waters
Year: 1987