Facts about A Wrinkle in Time
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L'Engle drew inspiration for A Wrinkle in Time from her interest in physics and spent years researching concepts like relativity and quantum mechanics before publishing the 1962 novel.
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Meg Murry, the 13-year-old protagonist of A Wrinkle in Time, struggles with her appearance and social awkwardness before discovering her inner strength throughout the novel.
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Opaque Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which serve as the three celestial guides who help the Murray children navigate dangerous worlds in A Wrinkle in Time.
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Charles Wallace Murray, the child prodigy in L'Engle's novel, communicates through telepathy and demonstrates an intelligence level that surpasses most adults throughout A Wrinkle in Time.
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The tesseract, a four-dimensional hypercube central to A Wrinkle in Time's plot device, allows characters to travel through space by folding the fabric of dimensions rather than moving linearly through them.
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Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time won the Newbery Medal in 1963, four years before she published its sequel A Wind in the Door.