Hvornår blev the book a wrinkle in time skrevet?
1960
A Wrinkle in Time
Bogen blev skrevet mellem 1959 og 1960. L'Engle skrev gentagne gange om skrivningen af historien og den lange kamp for at få den udgivet. I A Circle of Quiet (1972) forklarer hun, at bogen blev udtænkt "under en overgangstid". Efter i årevis at have boet på landet i Goshen, Connecticut, og drevet en almindelig butik, flyttede L'Engles familie, Franklin-familien, tilbage til New York City, hvor de først tog på en ti ugers campingtur tværs over landet og tilbage igen. L'Engle skriver, at "vi kørte gennem en verden af ørkener og buttes og bladløse bjerge, som var helt ny og fremmed for mig. Og pludselig kom navnene "Mrs Whatsit" ind i mit sind. Mrs Who. Fru Hvilken." Det var i foråret 1959. L'Engle læste om kvantefysik på det tidspunkt, hvilket også fandt vej ind i historien. Da hun færdiggjorde bogen i begyndelsen af 1960, blev den imidlertid afvist af mindst 26 forlag, fordi den med L'Engles ord var "for anderledes", og "fordi den åbenlyst behandler ondskabens problem, og fordi den var virkelig svær for børn, og var det overhovedet en børnebog eller en bog for voksne?".
1960
A Wrinkle in Time
The book was written between 1959 and 1960. L'Engle wrote repeatedly about the writing of the story and the long struggle to get it published. In A Circle of Quiet (1972), she explains that the book was conceived "during a time of transition." After years of living in rural Goshen, Connecticut, and running a general store, L'Engle's family, the Franklins, moved back to New York City, first taking a ten-week camping trip across the country and back again. L'Engle writes that "we drove through a world of deserts and buttes and leafless mountains, wholly new and alien to me. And suddenly into my mind came the names, Mrs Whatsit. Mrs Who. Mrs Which." This was in the spring of 1959. L'Engle was reading about quantum physics at the time, which also made its way into the story. When she completed the book in early 1960, however, it was rejected by at least 26 publishers, because it was, in L'Engle's words, "too different," and "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was really difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adults' book, anyhow?"
A Wrinkle in Time