Link goes to a Publishers Weekly page where L'Engle is a line item below a longer obit about a woman who died August 31, which initially confused me as apparently I have no reading comprehension.
Edit, from friendsfriends: NYT writeup and a 1998 essay on her work which I haven't read. /edit
I went to the Smith website to see if they had a news item up about it yet and learned that Newsweek Magazine names Smith as "Hottest Women's College."