Posted by Jer at 9:31 AM on
Friday, May 18, 2007
Lunchtime blogging can be depressing. The Beat is reporting that Lloyd Alexander has died (newspaper link here). He was 83 years old.
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Alexander wrote two series that I still adore to this day - the Prydain Chronicles (starting with "The Black Cauldron") and the Westmark series (starting with "Westmark"). He wrote many, many other books, but I'll always remember both of these series. The Prydain Chronicles in particular colored my early fantasy expectations as much as Tolkein, LeGuin and Howard all did.
He still has one book that will be released in August, one inspired by Middle Eastern folk tales according to the story at the Gainesville Sun linked to above -- "The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio". I will have to look for it this summer.
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Alexander wrote two series that I still adore to this day - the Prydain Chronicles (starting with "The Black Cauldron") and the Westmark series (starting with "Westmark"). He wrote many, many other books, but I'll always remember both of these series. The Prydain Chronicles in particular colored my early fantasy expectations as much as Tolkein, LeGuin and Howard all did.
He still has one book that will be released in August, one inspired by Middle Eastern folk tales according to the story at the Gainesville Sun linked to above -- "The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio". I will have to look for it this summer.
Labels: fantasy, lloyd alexander
2 Comments:
Dear lord, he was still alive?!?!?
Still alive and writing books!
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