![]() ![]() And then he began writing for young people.Doing historical research for Time Cat he discovered material on Welsh mythology. During the next ten years, he wrote for adults. It took seven years of constant rejection before his first novel was at last published. To earn his living, he worked as a cartoonist, advertising writer, layout artist, and associate editor for a small magazine. The young couple went back to Drexel Hill, near Philadelphia, where Alexander wrote novel after novel which publishers unhesitatingly turned down. Life abroad was fascinating, but eventually Alexander longed for home. While a student he met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine, and they soon married. Later he was discharged to attend the University of Paris. When the war ended, he was assigned to a counterintelligence unit in Paris. Alexander was sent to Alsace-Lorraine, the Rhineland, and southern Germany. But not until years later did he realize he had been given a glimpse of another enchanted kingdom. This ancient, rough-hewn country, with its castles, mountains, and its own beautiful language made a tremendous impression on him. Instead, Alexander and his group sailed to Wales to finish their training. "This, to my intense relief, did not happen," says Alexander. There he trained as a member of a combat team to be parachuted into France to work with the Resistance. At last, he was assigned to a military intelligence center in Maryland. Convinced that here was a chance for real deeds of derring-do, he joined the army - and was promptly shipped to Texas where he became, in disheartening succession an artilleryman, a cymbal player in the band, an organist in the post chapel, and a first-aid man. The United States had already entered World War II. Dissatisfied with not having learned enough to be a writer he left at the end of one term. Finally, having saved some money, he quit and went to a local college. And so when a Philadelphia bank had an opening for a messenger boy, he went to work there. ![]() His parents could not afford to send him to college. At one point, however, it seemed unlikely that he would ever be a writer at all. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.įew writers have inspired as much affection and interest among readers young and old as Lloyd Alexander. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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