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- Birth nameLloyd Chudley Alexander
- Lloyd Alexander is the author of several best selling fantasy series. His most famous works include the Chronicles of Prydain, which were inspired by Welsh mythology. He won the Newbery Medal for the fifth book in the series, "The High King." The second book of the series, "The Black Cauldron" was the basis of the Disney film, and won a Newbery Honor Award. He also wrote the Vesper Holly adventures, the Westmark trilogy, and "The Arkadians." He has written books inspired by Greek, African, Chinese and Persian mythology. He lived in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
- IMDb mini biography by: SWA
- SpouseJanine Denni(January 8, 1946 - May 2, 2007) (her death, 1 child)
- His wife of 60 years, Janine Denni, died just two weeks before Alexander did.
- Veteran of the Second World War
- Attended the University of Paris
- At heart, the issues raised in a work of fantasy are those we face in real life. In whatever guise-our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity; or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death-the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love and mercy, is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.
- Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
- Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
- Fantasy, by its power to move us so deeply, to dramatize, even melodramatize, morality, can be one of the most effective means of establishing a capacity for adult values.
- Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.
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