Lloyd Alexander is a towering figure in literature for young adults, with his fiction drawing awards, critical praise, and a large audience. He did not come by his fame and popularity easily, even though his novel The Book of Three, his second one for young adults, was a great success and on the strength of its lyrical prose, complex characters, and well-structured plot he became seemingly overnight one of the foremost writers for young people. Instead, he labored for many years and endured many rejections and failures before achieving his success. ...