Joan Aiken | |
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 Aiken at The Hermitage, her home, in 1984 | |
| Born | Joan Delano Aiken 4 September 1924[1] Rye, Sussex, England[1] |
| Died | 4 January 2004 (aged 79)[1] Petworth, Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Period | 1955–2004 |
| Genre | Alternative history, children's literature, supernatural fiction |
| Notable works | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves Chronicles) |
| Notable awards | Guardian Prize 1969 |
| Spouse | Ronald George Brown
(m. 1945; died 1955)Julius Goldstein
(m. 1976; died 2001) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Conrad Aiken (father) Jane Aiken Hodge (sister) |
| Website | |
| www | |
Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature.[2] For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers,[3] and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer.[4][a] She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
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