Peter S. Beagle — American Author born on April 20, 1939,

Peter Soyer Beagle is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially fantasy fiction. His best-known work is The Last Unicorn, a fantasy novel he wrote in his twenties, which Locus subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987. During the last twenty-five years he has won several literary awards including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011... (wikipedia)

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.