I can’t begin to say how “Wrinkle” made a difference in my life. I read it first at 7, then at 11 for school as most grade 6 kids do. I’ve read it twice since.

She will be missed.

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HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — Author Madeleine L’Engle, whose novel “A Wrinkle in Time” has been enjoyed by generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88.

L’Engle died Thursday at a nursing home in Litchfield of natural causes, according to Jennifer Doerr, publicity manager for publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

More Information: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/09/07/obit.lengle.ap/index.html