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Madeleine L'Engle is Author in Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. In addition to being a prolific writer, she has been a teacher, an actress, and the proprietor of a general store. Among the numerous literary awards her books have garnered is the John Newberry Award for A Wrinkle in Time. Her recent books include Mothers and Daughters (with her daughter Maria), Friends for the Journey (with Luci Shaw), and Bright Evening Star. Ms. L'Engle divides her time between homes in Goshen, Conn., (where she once ran that general store) and New York City.Luci Shaw is Writer in Residence at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Polishing the Petoskey Stone and Writing the River. She is also well known as a retreat facilitator and a lecturer on art and spirituality, the poetic imagination, and journal-writing as an aid to artistic and spiritual growth. She has co-authored two other books with Madeleine L'Engle, most recently Friends for the Journey. She and her husband, John Hoyte, live in Bellingham, Wash.