Lloyd
Alexander
Lloyd Alexander died on May 17, 2007, at his home in Drexel Hill,
Pennsylvania. He was eighty-three years old. His death followed
two weeks after that of his wife, Janine, to whom he was married
for sixty-two years. Alexander began his writing career as a humorist,
cartoonist, and advertising writer, but is most known for his extensive
oeuvre of children’s novels. Based on Welsh mythology, the
Chronicles of Prydain became favorites of children all over the
world. The Black Cauldron received a Newbery Honor in 1966
and The High King, the finale of the Chronicles of Prydain,
was the Newbery winner in 1969. In a 1970 article on humor, written
for The Horn Book Magazine, Alexander wrote: “Humor
can help us accept our transiency, our mortality — in which
all men are truly equal — and give us the courage, and the
grace, to live reasonably and compassionately.” By all accounts,
he did so.
From The Horn Book Magazine:
• A review
of The Black Cauldron.
• Alexander's 1965
letter to Horn Book editor Ruth Hill Viguers from our
Virtual History Exhibit.
• A 1969
profile by his editor, Ann Durell, from the August 1969 Horn
Book Magazine.
• Alexander's 1985
Horn Book appreciation of E. Nesbit's Five Children
and It.
From Read Roger, the Horn Book blog:
• Lloyd
Alexander
• More
on Lloyd Alexander
Brief bio in the History Exhibit
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