Everything about Lloyd Alexander totally explained
Lloyd Chudley Alexander (
January 30,
1924 -
May 17,
2007) was the
American author of more than forty books, mostly
fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books. His most famous contribution to the field of
children's literature is the
fantasy series
The Chronicles of Prydain. The first two books in this series formed the basis of the
Disney animated film The Black Cauldron. The concluding book of the series,
The High King, was awarded the
Newbery Medal in 1969. Alexander's other books have also won the
National Book Award and the
American Book Award.
Personal life
Alexander was born in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in
1924 and grew up in the suburb of
Drexel Hill. His father was a stockbroker and their family was greatly affected by the
Great Depression. According to Alexander, his parents didn't read books and only bought them from the
Salvation Army "to fill up empty shelves."
Alexander graduated from
Upper Darby High School in
1940, and was inducted into the school's Wall of Fame in
1995. He decided he wanted to be a writer at age 15, but his parents were so upset that they placed him at
Haverford College just down the road from home (although he left after completing only a single term). Looking for adventure, he served in the
US Army in
World War II, where he rose to be a
staff sergeant in
intelligence and
counterintelligence after he trained in
Wales, which would become the setting of so many of his books. Alexander then attended the
University of Paris, where he met Janine Denni. They were married in
1946. Alexander died
May 17,
2007, two weeks after the death of his wife of sixty-one years.
Awards
Alexander's book "The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian," about an 18th-century fiddler, won a 1971
National Book Award. He also won a 1982
American Book Award for
Westmark.
The fifth book in Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain series,
The High King won the
1969 Newbery Medal and was a finalist for both the
National Book Award and the American Book Award.
The second book in the series,
The Black Cauldron, was a
1966 Newbery Honor book. The fourth book in the series,
Taran Wanderer, was a
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
Among his other awards were the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for
The Fortune-Tellers (1992).
Bibliography
» *
The Book of Three (
1964)
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The Black Cauldron (
1965) - Winner of the
1966 Newbery Honor » *
The Castle of Llyr (
1966)
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Taran Wanderer (
1967)
» *
The High King (
1968) - Winner of the
1969 Newbery Medal
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The Foundling and Other Tales from Prydain (
1970)
The Westmark Trilogy
» *
Westmark (1981)
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The Kestrel (1982)
» *
The Beggar Queen (1984)
» *
The Illyrian Adventure (1986)
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The El Dorado Adventure (1987)
» *
The Drackenberg Adventure (
1988)
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The Jedera Adventure (1989)
» *
The Philadelphia Adventure (1990)
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The Xanadu Adventure (2005)
Other
» *
And Let the Credit Go (
1955) (first published book)
*
My Five Tigers (
1956)
» *
August Bondi: Border Hawk (
1958)
*
Aaron Lopez: The Flagship Hope (
1960)
» *
Fifty Years in the Doghouse (
1963)
* (
1963)
» *
The Truthful Harp (
1967)
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The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (
1970)
» *
The King's Fountain (
1971)
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The Four Donkeys (
1972)
» *
The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man (
1973)
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The Wizard in the Tree (
1974)
» *
The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha (
1978)
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The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen (
1991)
» *
The Fortune-Tellers (
1992)
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The Arkadians (
1995)
» *
The House Gobbaleen (
1995)
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The Iron Ring (
1997)
» *
Gypsy Rizka (
1999)
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How the Cat Swallowed Thunder (
2000)
» *
The Gawgon and the Boy (
2001) (UK title
The Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible Boy)
*
The Rope Trick (
2002)
» *
Dream-of-Jade: The Emperor's Cat (
2005)
*
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio (
2007)
Translations
» * "The Diary of Antoine Roquentin" (John Lehmann, 1949). This was the first English translation of the celebrated existentialist novel "La Nausée" by Jean-Paul Sartre (Gallimard 1938).
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