Thoughts on the death of Lloyd Alexander?

Question

His books got me through my youth with amazing fantastical and truely human tales. He will be missed.

Answer 1

I always thought his Prydain books were better than the over hyped Narnia series. Classic "hero w/ a thousand faces" story arc of the series. One of the things that always impressed me was the way the hero had to work to be king.

Answer 2

Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 - May 17, 2007) is the author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy books for children and adolescents, as well as several adult novels. Probably his most famous contribution to the field of children's fantasy is The Chronicles of Prydain, inspired by Welsh mythology and the Mabinogion. 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.

Personal Life

Alexander was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1924. He 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 horrified that they placed him in a local college. 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 at his home under hospice care on May 17, 2007, two weeks after the death of his wife of sixty-one years. [1] His last novel, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio had aleady been completed, and was set for publication in August of 2007.

The Chronicles of Prydain

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o The Book of Three (1964)
o The Black Cauldron (1965) - Winner of the 1966 Newbery Honor
o The Castle of Llyr (1966)
o Taran Wanderer (1967)
o The High King (1968) - Winner of the 1969 Newbery Medal
o The Foundling and Other Tales from Prydain (1970)

The Westmark Trilogy

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o Westmark (1981)
o The Kestrel (1982)
o The Beggar Queen (1984)

The Vesper Holly series

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o The Illyrian Adventure
o The El Dorado Adventure
o The Drackenberg Adventure (1988)
o The Jedera Adventure
o The Philadelphia Adventure
o The Xanadu Adventure (2005)

Other

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o And Let the Credit Go (1955) (first published book)
o My Five Tigers (1956)
o August Bondi: Border Hawk (1958)
o Aaron Lopez: The Flagship Hope (1960)
o Fifty Years in the Doghouse (1963)
o Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason And Gareth (1963)
o The Truthful Harp (1967)
o The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1970)
o The King's Fountain (1971)
o The Four Donkeys (1972)
o The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man (1973)
o The Wizard in the Tree (1974)
o The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha (1978)
o The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen (1991)
o The Fortune-Tellers (1992)
o The Arkadians (1995)
o The House Gobbaleen (1995)
o The Iron Ring (1997)
o Gypsy Rizka (1999)
o How the Cat Swallowed Thunder (2000)
o The Gawgon and the Boy (2001) [released in the UK as "The Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible Boy"]
o The Rope Trick (2002)
o Dream-of-Jade: The Emperor's Cat (2005)
o The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio (2007)

Translations

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o Nausea: The Wall and Other Stories, Jean-Paul Sartre (1999)