<P> In `` A Special Message from Madeleine L'Engle '' on the Random House website , L'Engle explains another possible reason for the rejections : `` A Wrinkle in Time had a female protagonist in a science fiction book , '' which at the time was uncommon . After trying `` forty - odd '' publishers ( L'Engle later said `` twenty - six rejections '' ) , L'Engle's agent returned the manuscript to her . Then at Christmas , L'Engle threw a tea party for her mother . One of the guests happened to know John C. Farrar of Farrar , Straus and Giroux , and insisted that L'Engle should meet with him . Although the publisher did not , at the time , publish a line of children 's books , Farrar met L'Engle , liked the novel , and ultimately published it . </P>
<P> In `` A Special Message from Madeleine L'Engle '' on the Random House website , L'Engle explains another possible reason for the rejections : `` A Wrinkle in Time had a female protagonist in a science fiction book , '' which at the time was uncommon . After trying `` forty - odd '' publishers ( L'Engle later said `` twenty - six rejections '' ) , L'Engle's agent returned the manuscript to her . Then at Christmas , L'Engle threw a tea party for her mother . One of the guests happened to know John C. Farrar of Farrar , Straus and Giroux , and insisted that L'Engle should meet with him . Although the publisher did not , at the time , publish a line of children 's books , Farrar met L'Engle , liked the novel , and ultimately published it . </P>
who published the book a wrinkle in time
who published the book a wrinkle in time
Farrar , Straus and Giroux
Farrar , Straus and Giroux