- L'Engle's birthplace, home of Adam Eddington, Camilla Dickinson, Katherine Forrester Vigneras, and even the Austins for one year. A specific location within the city, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, is the primary setting for The Young Unicorns and A Severed Wasp. L'Engle herself was writer-in-residence at the cathedral for many years. Switzerland - site of at least two fictional boarding schools in L'Engle's early novels (notably The Small Rain and And Both Were Young), based on one that L'Engle herself attended. Also the setting of the adult novel A Winter's Love. References L'Engle Time Quintet