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 LLOYD ALEXANDER is the author of the five-volume Chronicles of Prydain, widely considered a classic fantasy cycle. The Black Cauldron, the second in the series, is a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume, The High King, was awarded the Newbery Medal.
About The Westmark Trilogy, he says: "Books, not authors, decide when they want to
be written. Vague shadows of Westmark and the volumes that followed had been in
my head for half a dozen years before I was able even to put a word on a page. World
War II was long over, and I had come home from Europe with my Parisian wife and
daughter. I had been writing happily for a good while, and had discovered that stories
of fantasy worlds were, for me, the best way to express my attitudes and feelings
about people, problems, and relationships in our real world.
"Still, questions stuck in my mind: the uses and abuses of power, not only the conflict
between good and evil but--- far more difficult--- the conflict between good and good,
noble ideas broken by violence even in a good cause; and, in the midst of tragedies,
events that were hysterically, incongruously funny. I have no idea why Westmark
chose to be written precisely when it did. More surprisingly, I found myself dredging
up distant memories of what I had seen and known myself in combat. I did not find
answers to questions raised and expect I never will. Nor was it an attempt to exorcise
my own demons. No, I keep and cherish those demons. I like to believe they're my
conscience."
Lloyd Alexander lives with his wife, Janine, and their cats in Drexel Hill,
Pennsylvania. [edit]
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