Thursday, May 17, 2007

Lloyd Alexander: Fantasy and Adventure Writer


Lloyd Alexander
(January 30, 1924 - May 17, 2007)

“In whatever guise — our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity; or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death — the problems are agonizingly familiar,” he said in his Newbery acceptance speech in 1969. “And an openness to compassion, love and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.”

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