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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]
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Joan Aiken Joan Aiken was born in Mermaid Street on September 4, 1924 in Rye, Sussex. Her dad was Conrad Aiken, an American Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Her sister was Jane Aiken Hodge, a writer, and her brother was a writer and research chemist, named John Aiken.
Joan Aiken (born September 4, 1924, Rye, Sussex, England—died January 4, 2004, Petworth, West Sussex) was a prolific British author of fantasy, adventure, horror, and suspense tales for both juvenile and adult readers. Perhaps best-known as the inventor of a genre called the “ unhistorical romance,” Aiken wrote tales that combine humour ...
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Aug 31, 2018 · Joan Aiken with her family on their bus, circa 1951. Aiken, a children’s-book author, treated her fanciful premises with deadpan seriousness, creating an atmosphere that’s ironic and enchanted ...
Jan 4, 2004 · Joan Aiken was a much loved English writer who received the MBE for services to Children's Literature. She was known as a writer of wild fantasy, Gothic novels and short stories. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, Conrad Aiken (who won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry), and her sister, Jane Aiken ...
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Sep 4, 2015 · Joan Aiken died in 2004 but is still one of the UK’s most beloved children’s authors. She wrote more than 100 books and is most famed for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase chronicles and also The ...
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