North Pond: Swimmers

Happy travels, Madeleine L’Engle. What precocious child of the ’60s and ’70s wasn’t shaped by your wonder-filled adventures? I still sometimes think of tesseracts and moebius strips while I’m falling asleep.

• “It matters cosmically” (Poetry Foundation blog “Harriet”)
• Madeleine L’Engle, Children’s Writer, Is Dead
• Writer Madeleine L’Engle, 88; Author of ‘A Wrinkle in Time
• Madeleine L’Engle at Home