It’s not an easy task and the very nature of the transition is positioned as a serious obstacle to the success of any adaptation.

Unless an adapter is wildly liberal in the work of adaptation, comics have exactly two things to work with: writing (provided largely by the original author) and art through which to carry forth the dialogical and narrative aspects of the work (respectively). It’s not like with movies where a charismatic star or a sublime musical score can provide lift for a work. She lives in North Carolina.Adaptations from literature into the comics form have it pretty rough. She is additionally the author and illustrator of Salamander Dream, Gray Horses, Chiggers, and Mercury, and the author of Compass South and Knife's Edge, both illustrated by Rebecca Mock. She also adapted and illustrated A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel, which spent forty-four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and for which she won an Eisner Award. Hope Larson is the author of All Summer Long, which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018 and an Eisner Award Nominee, as well as the recently published sequel, All Together Now. L'Engle passed away in 2007 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her 1980 book A Ring of Endless Light won the Newbery Honor. Two companion novels, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet (a Newbery Honor book), complete what has come to be known as The Time Trilogy, a series that continues to grow in popularity with a new generation of readers. Her science fantasy classic A Wrinkle in Time was awarded the 1963 Newbery Medal. Her book Meet the Austins, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book of 1960, was based on this experience.

Hugh Franklin temporarily retired from the theater, and the family moved to western Connecticut and for ten years ran a general store. In the years her three children were growing up, she wrote four more novels. Franklin, L'Engle gave up the stage in favor of the typewriter. She met her future husband, Hugh Franklin, when they both appeared in The Cherry Orchard. While touring with a play, she wrote her first book, The Small Rain, originally published in 1945. L'Engle graduated cum laude from Smith College, then returned to New York to work in the theater. Her father was a reporter and her mother had studied to be a pianist, and their house was always full of musicians and theater people.

Born in 1918, L'Engle grew up in New York City, Switzerland, South Carolina and Massachusetts. Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) was the Newbery Medal-winning author of more than 60 books, including the much-loved A Wrinkle in Time.

A Wrinkle in Time by Hope Larson