Joan Aiken
Joan Delano Aiken (
September 4 1924 -
January 4 2004) was a
British novelist. She was born in
Rye,
East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father
Conrad Aiken and her sister Jane Aiken Hodge. She worked for the
BBC and the UNIC, before she started writing professionally, mainly
children's books and thrillers. For her books she received the Guardian Award (
1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (
1972).
Notable works