Joan aiken biography
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- Author: Joan Aiken Author Record #
- Legal Name: Aiken, Joan Delano
- Birthplace: Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
- Birthdate: 4 September
- Deathdate: 4 January
- Language: English
- Webpages:, Encyclopedia of Fantasy, IMDB, , Library of Congress, SFE, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names:Nicholas Dee,
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Joon Eikin Note: Daughter of Conrad Aiken; sister of John Aiken and Jane Aiken Hodge Joan Delano Aiken had a passion for ghost stories. She began working for BBC Radio in and later in the United London office as the Features Editor of Argosy magazine and as a copywriter in an advertising agency. She took up full-time writing in , producing a large number of fantasies, ghost stories and mysteries for children and adults. She also wrote several historical romances and sequels to works by Jane Austen. She was married to the American landscape painter Julius Goldstein. (derived from biographical intro in Dancing With the Dark as of )
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() UK author, daughter of Conrad Aiken, stepdaughter of Martin Armstrong [for both men see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], and sister of John Aiken; best known as a highly prolific author of fantasy for children and Young Adult readers. Almost none of her many adult novels contain explicit fantasy content, though some have supernatural implications; of these titles, Castle Barebane () is a streamlined Gothic and The Haunting of Lamb House (coll of linked stories ), set in the actual Lamb House in Rye, exposes two of its real-life inhabitants – Henry James () and E F Benson – to the ghost of an eighteenth-century child who has had to endure the breakup of his family.
Aiken was never strongly drawn to the writing of sf, though her most famous sequence – the Wolves Chronicles, also variously referred to as the Willoughby Chase, Alternate England, Dido Twite or James III series, beginning with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase () and ending with The Witch of Clatteringshaws () – is set in a genuine (if at times pixillated) Alternate History version of Britain where the Stuart dynasty has survived (James III has acceded in ), though Hanoverian plots against the t