"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."
"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) foi uma escritora americana conhecida pela obra infantojuvenil "Uma dobra no Tempo", vencedor do prêmio Newbery Medal e suas sequências "Um vento à porta", A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Seus trabalhos refletem seu forte interesse em ciência moderna. Tesserato, por exemplo, no livro "Uma dobra no Tempo", DNA mitocondrial em "Um vento à porta", e regeneração de órgãos in The Arm of the Starfish (ainda inédito no Brasil).