Joan Aiken
Novelist, Author
1924 – 2004
Who was Joan Aiken?
Joan Delano Aiken MBE was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternate history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, 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 subject. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Fall.
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- Born
- Sep 4, 1924
Rye - Also known as
- Joan Delano Aiken
- Joan Delano Aiken MBE
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Lived in
- Rye
- Died
- Jan 4, 2004
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on July 23, 2013
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