Madeleine L'Engle has had a fruitful and quite interesting career. She was involved in theater for 1941 through 1947, and a teacher with the Committee for Refuge Education during World War II. L'Engle was a "normal" teacher for a long amount of time, also. She has been a librarian, and later was on the University of Indiana faculty. She was a Writer in Residence at various schools during 1971, and President of the Author's Guild for 1972 L'Engle writes mainly fantasy and realistic fiction. Her many works include:

• Picture books
  • Dance in the Desert
  • Everyday Prayers
  • Prayers for Sunday
  • Ladder of Angels: Scenes from the Bible Illustrated by the Children of the World
  • The Glorious Impossible
• Various juvenile fiction
  • And Both Were Young
  • Camilla
  • Intergalactic P.S.3
  • The Sphinx at Dawn: Two Stories
• "The Austin Family" Series
  • Meet the Austins
  • The Moon by Night
  • The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas: An Austin Family Story
  • A Ring of Endless Light
  • The Anti-Muffins
  • Work in progress - centering on Vicky Austin in Antarctica
• "The Time Fantasy" Series
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • A Wind in the Door
  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet
  • A House Like a Lotus
  • Many Waters
  • Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet
  • An Acceptable Time
• "The Cannon Tallis Mystery" Series
  • The Arm of the Starfish
  • The Young Unicorns
  • Dragons in the Waters
• Adult fiction
  • The Small Rain: A Novel
  • Ilsa
  • Camilla Dickinson
  • A Winter's Lover
  • The Love Letters
  • The Other Side of the Sun
  • A Severed Wasp
  • Certain Women
• Non-fiction
  • Spirit and Light: Essays in Historical Theology
  • And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginning
  • Dare to Be Creative
  • Trailing Clouds of Glory: Spiritual Values in Children's Books
  • A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob
  • Sold into Egypt: Joseph's Journey into Human Being
  • The Rock that is Higher: Story as Truth
• "Crosswicks Journals" (Autobiographies)
  • A Circle of Quiet
  • The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
  • The Irrational Season
  • Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
• Poetry
  • Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems
  • The Weather of the Heart
  • Walking on Water: Reflections of Faith and Art
  • A Cry Like a Bell
• Plays
  • 18 Washington Square, South: A Comedy in One Act
  • How Now Brown Cow
  • The Journey with Jonah
• She is the contributor of articles, stories, and poems to periodicals, including McCall's Christian Century, Commonweal, Christianity Today, and Mademoiselle.

• And Both Were Young
  • Ten Best Books of the Year, 1949
• A Wrinkle in Time
  • Newberry Medal, 1963
  • Hans Christian Andersen Award runner-up, 1964
  • Sequoyah Children's Book Award, 1965
  • Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1965
• The Young Unicorns
  • Spring Book Festival Honor Book, 1968
  • One of School Library Journal's Best Books of the Year, 1968
• The Moon By Night
  • Austrian State Literary Prize, 1969
• U. of S. Mississippi Silver Medallion, 1978
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet
  • American Book Award
• A Ring of Endless Light
  • Newberry Honor Book, 1981
• Books for Teenage Selection, 1981
  • Camilla
  • A Ring of Endless Light
• Sophie Award, 1984
• Regina Medal, 1984
• Adolescent Literature Assembly Award, 1986

Madeleine L'Engle's fabulous and illustrious career has rightfully earned her vast fame in the world of literature.