Cards of Grief (22 page)

Sitting on the statue of Hans Christian Andersen in Central Park in New York in 1961, when I was twenty-two. (Photo by David Stemple.)

Enjoying Dirleton Castle in Scotland in 2010.

Signing my Caldecott Medal–winning book
Owl Moon
in 2011.

Reading for an audience at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2012.

Visiting Andrew Lang’s gravesite at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew in Scotland in 2011.

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“In the Hall of Grief” first appeared in
Elsewhere Vol. II
and “Cards of Grief” first appeared in
Tales of Wonder
, both in greatly altered forms.
Elsewhere Vol. II
, published by Ace Fantasy Books, copyright © 1982 by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold.
Tales of Wonder
, published by Schocken Books, copyright © 1983 by Jane Yolen.

Copyright © 1984 by Jane Yolen

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