In "A Special Message from Madeleine L'Engle '' on the Random House website, L'Engle explains another possible reason for the rejections: "A Wrinkle in Time had a female protagonist in a science fiction book, '' which at the time was uncommon. After trying "forty - odd '' publishers (L'Engle later said "twenty - six rejections ''), L'Engle's agent returned the manuscript to her. Then at Christmas, L'Engle threw a tea party for her mother. One of the guests happened to know John C. Farrar of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and insisted that L'Engle should meet with him. Although the publisher did not, at the time, publish a line of children 's books, Farrar met L'Engle, liked the novel, and ultimately published it.
who published the book a wrinkle in time
Farrar, Straus and Giroux