<P> 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 ? '' </P>
<P> 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 ? '' </P>
when was the book a wrinkle in time written
when was the book a wrinkle in time written
between 1959 and 1960
between 1959 and 1960