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Lloyd Alexander Has Left Us

by Elisa

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Lloyd Alexander, the Newbery Award-winning author of the Prydain Chronicles and many other fabulous books, has been taken from us by cancer just weeks after his wife had also passed on. Mr. Alexander was 83. (You can find the New York Times article here.) And I was so very sad to discover this. Lloyd Alexander was one of my favorite authors growing up. I inhaled all of his books that I could get my hands on. I still have all of my copies of the Prydain Chronicles, worn with repeated reading. I have a copy of The Kestrel somewhere, but I can’t seem to locate it. (Book two of the Prydain Chronicles: The Black Cauldron was made into an animated film at one point. I still think that they should have made films out of the Westmark books.) Okay, so I didn’t buy a Prydain related web domain like one of my friends, but that doesn’t mean that I never dreamt of being Eilonwy or The Beggar Queen of Westmark. Lloyd Alexander had the ability to create a believable fantasy world that would suck you in and leave you scrambling for the next book. Speaking of which, I’m going to gather all of his books together and add them to my reading stack.

Another of the greats has left us. Who will give Gurgi his munchings and crunchings now?

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Posted in Author Information on May 23rd, 2007

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