Becoming a Warrior

When she was ten years old, Catherine Hand read the novel A Wrinkle in Time and vowed that someday she would make a movie based on this thrilling tale. As Catherine recounts in her memoir Becoming a Warrior, her journey would include working alongside the television luminary Norman Lear in the creation of the nonprofit People For the American Way, and a 25 year-long conversation with author Madeleine L'Engle about her book. Catherine took to heart L'Engle's steadfast belief that darkness can be overcome and she ultimately found the right team to bring her dream to fruition.  Becoming a Warrior illustrates one woman's persistence-through a demanding career in the entertainment industry, the sudden and unexpected death of her beloved husband, raising three young children on her own-and eventual success. In 2018, over fifty years after Hand first read A Wrinkle in Time, Walt Disney Studios released a major motion picture based on the award-winning classic. The movie was directed by Ava DuVernay, written by Jennifer Lee and starred Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha Raw and Storm Reid. In the film adaptation, Meg doubts her abilities to find her missing father. Mrs Which, the oldest of the celestial beings, turns to her and says, "Be a Warrior! Can you?" Becoming a Warrior, is the triumphant story of how one woman finds the courage to overcome many forms of darkness and discovers that love isn't what you feel, it's what you do.