I’m interrupting my hiatus to report some terrible news. I’ve received a report (although it’s noted by Wikipedia) that children’s book author Lloyd Alexander has passed on. Alexander wrote some amazing fantasy books that I remember reading as a kid, The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron. His wit and imagination will be truly missed.
More info on Alexander.
Daniel Laloggia’s discovery of The Book of Three.
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This is horribly sad, yet the information on Wikipedia was bittersweet. Married for 61 years…his wife passed away…and then he died two weeks later.
I owe him a lot.
The High King was one of the first books I ever read. I think I was six. The only book I can remember reading on my own before that was Bunnicula.
A marriage of 61 years is not easily survived. Vale to Alexander the great.
Lloyd Alexander – whose books loomed enormous in my childhood – was very kind to me. I was passing through Philadelphia when I was 18, and somehow got hold of his number. How? The phone book? He very kindly invited me over and I sat in his living room and he talked about his books, my hopes of writing, and his lifelong friendship with Maurice Sendak. I was some random kid, and he was a generous, lovely man.
Sad news, but also happy news of a long life well lived.
Thanks for the post. I’ll link.