Joan Aiken (1924–2004)
Autor(a) de The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
About the Author
Joan Delano Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex, England, on September 4, 1924, the daughter of the Pulitzer Prize winner, writer Conrad Aiken. She was raised in a rural area and home schooled by her mother until the age 12. She then attended Wychwood School, a boarding school in Oxford. Her work first mostrar mais appeared in 1941 when the British Broadcasting Corporation, where she worked as a librarian, broadcast some of her short stories on their Children's Hour program. Aiken also worked at St. Thomas's Hospital, and in 1943 she moved to the reference department of the London office of the United Nations, where she collected information about resistance movements. She worked for the UN until 1949, all the while continuing to write stories. In 1953 a collection of short fiction called All You've Ever Wanted and Other Stories was published. While writing The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, begun in 1952, her husband became ill and died of lung cancer in 1955. After working for five years as a copy editor at Argosy Magazine, and at the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Firm, she returned and finished the book in 1963. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and was made into a successful film in 1988. In 1969 The Whispering Mountain won the Guardian Children's Book Award, and in 1972, Night Fall won America's Edgar Allen Poe Award for juvenile mystery. Aiken is best known for her adult "fantasy" stories. She has received awards for children's fiction and for mystery fiction, and has also written ''sequels'' to Jane Austen books. She collaborated with her daughter to write many episodes of her Arabel and Mortimer the raven series for the BBC. In all, Aiken wrote 92 novels - including 27 for adults - as well as plays, poems and short stories, although she was best known as a writer of children's stories. Joan Aiken died in January of 2004 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Joan Aiken
Jane Fairfax: The Secret Story of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen's Emma (1990) — Autor — 374 exemplares
The Watsons and Emma Watson: Jane Austen's Unfinished Novel Completed by Joan Aiken (1996) 118 exemplares
The Rented Swan 4 exemplares
Mitox (I) 3 exemplares
Clem's Dream [short fiction] 3 exemplares
Hair (short story) 2 exemplares
A Necklace of Raindrops [short story] 2 exemplares
O Sonâmbulo do inverno 2 exemplares
1992 1 exemplar
1991 1 exemplar
Lungewater [short story] 1 exemplar
Autograph, (Children's S. F. Writer), S. 3x5 1 exemplar
Das Todesparfüm 1 exemplar
Lodgers [short fiction] 1 exemplar
L' Eredita' Contesa 1 exemplar
Ghostly Beasts 1 exemplar
הזאבים מאחוזת וילובי 1 exemplar
A Mermaid Too Many [short story] 1 exemplar
Model Wife (short story) 1 exemplar
Water of Youth (short story) 1 exemplar
Find Me 1 exemplar
The Companion 1 exemplar
Finders Keepers 1 exemplar
Marmalade Wine [short story] 1 exemplar
The Elves in the Shelves [short story] 1 exemplar
The Fluttering Thing (short story) 1 exemplar
Second Thoughts (short story) 1 exemplar
Wee Robin (short story) 1 exemplar
The Monkey's Wedding (short story) 1 exemplar
The Helper (short story) 1 exemplar
The Sale of Midsummer (short story) 1 exemplar
Honeymaroon (short story) 1 exemplar
Harp Music (short story) 1 exemplar
The Magnesia Tree (short story) 1 exemplar
Octopi in the Sky (short story) 1 exemplar
The Paper Queen (short story) 1 exemplar
Spur of the Moment (short story) 1 exemplar
Red-Hot Favourite (short story) 1 exemplar
Goblin Music 1 exemplar
Girl in a Whirl (short story) 1 exemplar
HL' Iorso e la fanciulla e altre storie 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Autor — 1,548 exemplares
Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (1985) — Contribuidor — 161 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Three (2009) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex (1975) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares II: More Tales to Make You Scream (1997) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight (1995) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July/August 2011, Vol. 121, Nos. 1 & 2 (2011) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Geschichten Geschichten Geschichten . Zum Vorlesen und zum Selberlesen. Bilder von Ingrid Schneider (1988) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Illustrated Treasury of Literature/Modern Literature For Children (Boxed Set) (1986) 4 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 6, February 1977 — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 10, June 1977 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 11, July 1977 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Goldstein, Joan Delano Aiken Brown
- Data de nascimento
- 1924-09-04
- Data de falecimento
- 2004-01-04
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Petworth, West Sussex, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
New York, USA - Educação
- Wychwood School for Girls, Oxford
- Ocupações
- Children's Author
Novelist
Advertising Copywriter
Editor - Relações
- Aiken, Conrad (father)
Armstrong, Martin (stepfather)
Hodge, Jane Aiken (sister)
Aiken, John (brother)
Brown, Ronald George (husband)
Goldstein, Julius (husband) (mostrar todos 7)
Aiken, Lizza (daughter) - Organizações
- BBC
Argosy - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Guardian Award (1969)
Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (1999) - Agente
- A. M. Heath & Co.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Joan Aiken was an 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 Hodge. She worked for the United Nations Information Office during the second world war, and then as an editor and freelance on Argosy magazine before she started writing full time, mainly children's books and thrillers. For her books she received the Guardian Award (1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972).
Her most popular series, the "Wolves Chronicles" which began with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, was set in an elaborate alternate period of history in a Britain in which James II was never deposed in the Glorious Revolution,and so supporters of the House of Hanover continually plot to overthrow the Stuart Kings. These books also feature cockney urchin heroine Dido Twite and her adventures and travels all over the world.
Another series of children's books about Arabel and her raven Mortimer are illustrated by Quentin Blake, and have been shown on the BBC as Jackanory and drama series. Others including the much loved Necklace of Raindrops and award winning Kingdom Under the Sea are illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski.
Her many novels for adults include several that continue or complement novels by Jane Austen. These include Mansfield Revisited and Jane Fairfax.
Aiken was a lifelong fan of ghost stories. She set her adult supernatural novel The Haunting of Lamb House at Lamb House in Rye (now a National Trust property). This ghost story recounts in fictional form an alleged haunting experienced by two former residents of the house, Henry James and E. F. Benson, both of whom also wrote ghost stories. Aiken's father, Conrad Aiken, also authored a small number of notable ghost stories.
Membros
Discussions
British Author Challenge January 2024: Joan Aiken & Arthur Conan Doyle em 75 Books Challenge for 2024 (Fevereiro 17)
THE DEEP ONES: "Cold Flame" by Joan Aiken em The Weird Tradition (Setembro 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "Reading in Bed" by Joan Aiken em The Weird Tradition (Junho 2022)
Joan Aiken romance- main female lead dies em Name that Book (Março 2016)
Críticas
Listas
Sonlight Books (2)
Edgar Award (1)
grrrrrl power (1)
Best Young Adult (1)
Ghosts (1)
Spirit of Place (1)
Books with Twins (1)
1964 Project (1)
1960s (1)
Austenland (5)
Children's Humor (4)
Elevenses (3)
Female Author (3)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 203
- Also by
- 123
- Membros
- 17,864
- Popularidade
- #1,231
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 415
- ISBN
- 1,004
- Línguas
- 20
- Marcado como favorito
- 76
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