Publication history
The book was written between 1959 and 1960.[4] L'Engle wrote repeatedly concerning the writing of the story and also the long struggle to induce it revealed. in a very Circle of Quiet (1972),[5] she explains that the book was formed "during a time of transition." when years of living in rural Goshen, Connecticut and running a retail store, L'Engle's family, the Franklins, enraptured back to the big apple town, 1st taking a ten-week habitation trip across the country and back once more. L'Engle writes that "we drove through a world of deserts and buttes and leafless mountains, all new and alien to ME. And suddenly into my mind came the names, Mrs Whatsit. Mrs Who. Mrs Which."[6] This was within the spring of 1959. L'Engle was reading concerning natural philosophy at the time, that additionally created its manner into the story.[7] once she completed the book in early 1960, however, it absolutely was rejected by a minimum of twenty six publishers, as a result of it absolutely was, in L'Engle's words, "too completely different," and "because it deals overtly with the matter of evil, and it absolutely was extremely troublesome for youngsters, associated was it a children's or an adults' book, anyhow?"[2][6]
In "A Special Message from Madeleine L'Engle" on the Random House web site, L'Engle explains another potential reason for the rejections: "A Wrinkle in Time had a feminine protagonist in a very phantasy book," that at the time was uncommon. when making an attempt "forty-odd" publishers (L'Engle later same "twenty-six rejections"), L'Engle's agent came back the manuscript to her. Then at Christmas, L'Engle threw a party for her mother. one in all the guests happened to grasp John C. Farrar of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and insisted that L'Engle ought to meet with him. though the publisher didn't at the time publish a line of children's books, Farrar met L'Engle, liked the novel, and ultimately revealed it.[8]
The book has been ceaselessly in print since its 1st publication. The hardback edition continues to be revealed by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. the initial blue dust wrapper by Ellen Raskin was replaced with new art by Leo and Diane Dillon, with the publication of A fleetly Tilting Planet in 1978. The book has additionally been revealed in a very twenty fifth day collectors' edition (limited to five hundred signed and numbered copies), a minimum of 2 book club editions (one hardback, one Scholastic Book Services paperback), as a trade paperback underneath the dingle Yearling imprint, and as a mass market paperback underneath the dingle Laurel-Leaf imprint. the duvet art on the paperback editions has modified many times since 1st publication.
The book was reissued by sq. Fish in trade and mass market paperback formats in might 2007, beside the remainder of the Time Quintet. This redo includes a antecedently unpublished interview with L'Engle furthermore because the text of her Newbery laurels acceptance speech
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