Lloyd Alexander has written nearly forty books.
Many of his books are fantasies, and they are terrific. The High
King won the 1969 Newbery Award. He says that his childhood was
ordinary, but there's nothing ordinary about him. He loves music,
cats, and drawing. Here's a self-portrait--Lloyd is holding his violin.
He and his wife live in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania,
where Lloyd says that there is no hill, unless you count the bump in the
road across from the barber shop. He writes early in the morning,
and when he hits a trouble spot, he sneaks back to bed. His wife
says that he is snoozing, but Lloyd says that he is "thinking horizontally."
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