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A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle - Book Trivia Podcast

A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle - Book Trivia Podcast

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Rejected by at least 26 publishers. Banned in schools across the US. Sent into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. The story behind Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 Newbery Medal winner is stranger than anything that happens on Camazotz.

This episode, Jess and Rach cover:

  • The Christmas tea party that got A Wrinkle in Time published after every major publisher passed
  • L'Engle's own life — the "stupid" kid whose teachers didn't believe she'd written her own prize-winning poem
  • Why the planet names (Camazotz, Ixchel, Uriel) are pulled straight from real Mayan and Hebrew mythology, not invented
  • The backlash from both evangelical schools and secular critics over L'Engle's unconventional Christian faith
  • The 2018 Disney film's casting, its Hamilton reference, and what got cut from the book
  • The NASA astronaut who read this book as a kid — and later took it into space


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