Lloyd Alexander, 1924-2007
SF Scope reports that young adult novelist Lloyd Alexander has died today under hospice care in his home, two weeks after the death of his wife of sixty-two years. Alexander is best known for the "Prydain" series (five novels and a related story collection, which won him the Newberry Award for The High King and was made into a Disney animated movie as The Black Cauldron.
A bibliography of his work is available at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, and he has a page on Wikipedia.
He will be greatly missed.
Comments
1) That's too bad;
2) Err, did you mean to quote a _Susan Cooper_ poem here?
Posted by: Kate Nepveu | May 17, 2007 12:10 PM
Sad news. I remember Prydain very fondly.
That said, the poem you're quoting is from Susan Cooper's _The Dark is Rising_ series. Not sure if that's intended or not.
Posted by: Elio M. García, Jr. | May 17, 2007 12:21 PM
Elio: Deleted, and I won't even try to make an excuse for doing something so stupid. Thanks for pointing that out.
Posted by: Andrew Wheeler | May 17, 2007 12:38 PM