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Lloyd Alexander

(Lloyd Chudley Alexander)

(1924 - 2007)

Lloyd Alexander is one of America's most distinguished authors. He has won the Newbery medal and has received one Lifetime Achievement Award for Children's Literature from Parents' Choice and another from the World Fantasy Convention.

Awards: WFA (2003), Newbery (1969) see all

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy

Series

Chronicles of Prydain
   1. The Book of Three (1964)
   2. The Black Cauldron (1965)
   3. The Castle of Llyr (1966)
   4. Taran Wanderer (1967)
   5. The High King (1968)

Westmark
   1. Westmark (1981)
   2. The Kestrel (1982)
   3. The Beggar Queen (1984)

Vesper Holly
   1. The Illyrian Adventure (1986)
   2. The El Dorado Adventure (1987)
   3. The Drackenberg Adventure (1988)
   4. The Jedera Adventure (1989)
   5. The Philadelphia Adventure (1990)
   6. The Xanadu Adventure (2005)

Novels

   My Five Tigers (1956)
   August Bondi: Border Hawk (1958)
   Aaron Lopez: The Flagship Hope (1960)
   Janine is French (1960)
   Fifty Years in the Doghouse (1963)
   Time Cat (1963)
   Send for Ryan (1965)
   The Truthful Harp (1967)
   The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1970)
   The King's Fountain (1971)
   The Four Donkeys (1972)
   The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man (1973)
   The Wizard in the Tree (1974)
   The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha (1978)
   The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen (1991)
   The Fortune-Tellers (1992)
   The Arkadians (1995)
   The House Gobbaleen (1995)
   The Iron Ring (1997)
   Gypsy Rizka (1999)
   How the Cat Swallowed Thunder (2000)
   The Gawgon and the Boy (2001)
     aka 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)

Collections

The Foundling (1973)
The Town Cats (1977)

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Books containing stories by Lloyd Alexander

The Wand in the Word (2006)
Conversations with Writers of Fantasy
edited by
Leonard S Marcus

Firebirds (2003)
An Original Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction
edited by
Sharyn November

The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (1976)
(Year's Best Fantasy Stories, book 1)
edited by
Lin Carter

More books

Awards

	2003 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement
	1969 Newbery Medal : The High King

Award nominations

	1985 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Beggar Queen
	1971 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (nominee) : The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
	1966 Newbery Medal (nominee) : The Black Cauldron

Lloyd Alexander recommends

Talon (2007)
(Wilde Island Chronicles, book 1)
Janet Lee Carey
"A remarkable achievement."

In the Coils of the Snake (2005)
(Hollow Kingdom Trilogy, book 3)
Clare B Dunkle
"As persuasive as it is remarkable."

Snow, Fire, Sword (2004)
(El Jisal, book 1)
Sophie Masson
"Epic in scale, universally human."