The Gawgon and the Boy by Lloyd Alexander

In Paris that he met author Gertrude Stein as well as future wife Janine Denni.

After being released from service he attended the University of Paris. As the war drew to a close, Alexander was finally transferred to Paris. Scenes of violence and warfare also provided fodder for later works. In the Army he trained to help the French resistance but ended up stationed variously in Wales and in the German Rhineland, locations that later served as inspiration for the enchanted kingdoms of his novels.

Eventually he had earned enough to enroll in school, but at age nineteen, restless and dissatisfied, he quit college to join the U.S. Having no money for college, Alexander took a job at Philadelphia bank, as a messenger boy. By the time he was thirteen he was attempting his own poetry, and by fifteen he was determined to be an author, a career choice that his parents abhorred. He learned to read by the age of three, and his literary interests, which included Mark Twain and Charles Dickens, grew to embrace the King Arthur legends as well as Greek and Celtic mythology. The 1985 Disney animated film The Black Cauldron was based on the first and second books in the Prydain series.ĭespite being born to parents who had never read a single book, Alexander had an elderly aunt who loved literature, and she read to him often. Alexander has also been awarded the Newbery Medal, the Newbery Honor Award, The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the National Book Award.

Many of his works have been selected as ALA Notable Children’s Books and School Library Journal Best Books of the Year. The author of over forty books, Lloyd Alexander is best known for his Chronicles of Prydain novels as well as numerous other fantasy novels for young people. Military service: US Army (WWII, military intelligence) OL1966653W Pages 218 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201222131659 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 293 Scandate 20201220085644 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780525466772 Tts_version 4.Remains: Buried, Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PAĮxecutive summary: The Chronicles of Prydain Urn:lcp:gawgonboy0000lloy:lcpdf:f01f3e4b-1d9b-41a0-9104-717a994e91d0 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier gawgonboy0000lloy Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3mx29g7n Invoice 1652 Isbn 0525466770 Lccn 00047541 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300110 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:02:03 Boxid IA40023801 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The Gawgon and the Boy by Lloyd Alexander