“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander
American author

Lloyd Chudley Alexander was an American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults. Wikipedia
Born: January 30, 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: May 17, 2007, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, United States
Spouse: Janine Denni (m. 1946)
Movies: The Black Cauldron

Quotes
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
There’s this huge number of desperate people.