Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children'salternative 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 writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
Biography
Aiken was born in Mermaid Street in Rye, Sussex, on 4 September 1924. Her father was the American Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Conrad Aiken (1889–1973). Her older brother was the writer John Aiken (1913–1990), and her older sister was the writer Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009). Their mother, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald (1889–1970), was a Master's graduate from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jessie and Conrad's marriage was dissolved in 1929, and Jessie married the English writer Martin Armstrong in 1930. Conrad Aiken went on to marry twice more. Together with her brother John and her sister Jane, Joan Aiken wrote Conrad Aiken Remembered (1989), a short appreciation of their father.
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Its rapturous reception when it was published in 1962 turned its 38-year-old author, Joan Aiken, into one of the most beloved writers of all time ... Joan Aiken ... Tales ofLondon Town by Joan Aiken is published by Manderley Press (£18.99).
Pure delight for ages 7+ ... This year marks the centenary of Joan Aiken’s birth, and although The Wolves of Willoughby Chase remains her best-known classic, those seeking great stories about boys should get her FelixTrilogy (Red Fox, £6,99 each; 11+).
Philip Reeve roams across realms of his own making with effortless brio ... The great Joan Aiken’s Tales ofLondon Town (Manderley Press, £18.99) is a pocket-sized collection of her loosely linked stories about a wild and imaginary part of the city ... .
The Aiken Poets will meet from 11.30 a.m ... For more information, call RogerBrock at 803-646-2141 or Joan Lacombe at 803-507-7020. USC Aiken Theatre students will perform "Stupid F-ing Bird," at 7 p.m ... Mondays at the Aiken SeniorLife Services, 1310 E.
The lecture is free and open to the public, and is part of USC Aiken’s Aiken in The Alley series ...The Senior Men's Club of Aiken will meet at noon Wednesday, Nov ... His topic will be The Latest on the Inclined Plane in Aiken.
Q ... “Sabrina & Corina” by Kali Fajardo-Anstine ... Q ... Once I became a strong independent reader, the spooky, empowering, feminist “The Wolves of Willoughby Chase” by Joan Aiken made an indelible impact…I’ve probably read it close to a hundred times. Q ... Q ... Q ... Q.
Children’s books are often meant to be timeless, but in fact they reflect and even predict the politics of the era ... Reminiscent of Joan Aiken in its wit and style, it stresses the importance of stories that confront familiar greed and lies ... [See also.
The fun starts with its endpapers ... Illustration ... a narrative that takes you back to the deep pleasures of childhood reading (I wonder if Adlam read Joan Aiken as a child, for it was Aiken as much as any Russian that I thought of as I turned its pages).
The number of people who voted before Saturday's Republican presidential primary in Aiken County is twice as high as the number of people who voted in the Feb ... Overall, 3,264 Aiken County voters cast ballots in the Feb ... Aiken AreaNews. Battle of Aiken.
We Are Aiken County is a series of articles that will run through March 16 ... The late JoanTower, the former wife of Whitney Tower and a patron of Aiken’s arts and equestrian communities, was the last family member to reside at Joye Cottage.
Joan Aiken had started the book a decade earlier, as a young mother in the 1950s, when she was spurred on by a notion that came to her while chopping wood ... Then disaster struck ... Related articles. BOOKS I REREADING ... David Mills ... .
It’s that time of year when you need to be thinking about purchasing a Christmas tree, so Santa has someplace to put your presents ... A few glasses of Joan Aiken’s famous eggnog, just before bedtime, will make it a wonderful night’s sleep ... ....
Milner is Aiken’s new mayor, and she said she’s ready to “get to work” in her new role ... After going through the routine opening of the meeting, Osbon asked council member Gail Diggs to read two tributes written by Joan Lacombe, Aiken’s poet laureate.
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