In the thirty-odd years of his writing career, Lloyd Chudley Alexander has proven himself a master in the field of modern children's literature. His numerous literary awards both in the United States and Europe, as well as his widespread readership, whic...

Lloyd Alexander was born on January 30, 1924, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in that city. "Family life as a child was unextraordinary. My childhood was certainly no more miserable than anyone else's, although at the time, I thought it was. I l...

Lloyd Alexander is widely regarded as a master of twentieth-century children's literature. He is best-known for his fantasy fiction and modern fables: imaginative and adventurous stories, often rooted in historical fact and legend, which explore universa...

In 1921, at the age of 31, Capek joined the Prague newspaper Lidove noviny, and for the rest of his life he channeled enormous amounts of work through its pages. He was made art director of the National Art Theater in Prague. He...

Amit Chaudhuri Knopf, $24 (480p) ISBN 0-375-40427-9 Attended by its watchful, intuitive handmaiden-the laudable Chaudhuri, in his first U S publication--the English idiom emerges new-skinned and crying healthily m the humid air and shuttered rooms of Calcutta and Bombay Collected in one...