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I’m always happy to meet a fellow fan of D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, and first-novelist Julian Randall, author of Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa, and I talk below about how he married his childhood passion for mythology and fantasy with a modern tragedy the murderous Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic that brought his family to the United States two generations before him. And he’s a Chicagoan!