Note: Lord visited the Connecticut Children's Book Festival from Manhattan, New York, in June 1970, and as one of the characters told a story from the Arabian Nights. He was known to the newspaper for children's sports stories ("sports-minded boys will have their innings") and for marriage to an unnamed book editor. --The Hartford Courant, Spring 1970; finally 1970-06-13 p26 with photograph of children "Meeting an Author"