The following people share a birthdate with our vice-president:
Ann Taylor, author of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, b. 1782
Barbara Tuchman, author of one my favorite works of historical nonfiction, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, b. 1912
Walter Savage Landor, poet, b. 1775
Finis
I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife.
Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art:
I warm’d both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Angela Margaret Thirkell, author of about 30 books about English village life during and just after WW II.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, b. 1882
Lloyd Alexander, b. 1924, author of fantasy based on Celtic mythology
In honor of Mr. Alexander, I give you some of my favorite fantasy worlds. Can you name an author/creator and at least one book title for each one?
1. Middle Earth (easy)
2. Narnia (easy)
3. Prydain (should be easy)
4. Valinor
5. Earthsea
6. Pern
7. Land between the Mountains
8. Wonderland
9. Oz
10. Shangri-la
11. Westmark
12. Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and Land of the Houyhnhnms
13. The 100 Acre Wood
14. Dictionopolis and Digitopolis
15. Asteroid B 612
Actually, most of these should be easy. And did you know that George Macdonald and his family read Lewis Carrol’s “Alice story” and encouraged him to have it published?
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1. Middle Earth (easy) TOLKIEN, LOTR: FOTR
2. Narnia (easy) LEWIS, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
3. Prydain (should be easy) ALEXANDER, THE HIGH KING
4. Valinor TOLKIEN, THE SILMARILLION
5. Earthsea LEGUIN, THE TOMBS OF ATUAN
6. Pern MCAFFREY, THE DRAGONRIDERS OF
7. Land between the Mountains KENDALL, THE GAMMAGE CUP
8. Wonderland CARROLL, ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN
9. Oz BAUM, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF
10. Shangri-la HILTON, LOST HORIZON (but also, arguably, Poe… a short story, the name of which escapes me this second)
11. Westmark ALEXANDER (??), WESTMARK (??)
12. Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and Land of the Houyhnhnms SWIFT, TRAVELS INTO REMOTE NATIONS
13. The 100 Acre Wood MILNE, THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER
14. Dictionopolis and Digitopolis JUSTER, THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
15. Asteroid B 612 SAINT-EXUPERY, THE LITTLE PRINCE
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