Encyclopedia > Joan Aiken

  Article Content

Joan Aiken

Joan Delano Aiken (born 1924) is 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



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Lake Ronkonkoma, New York

... age 18 and over, there are 90.3 males. The median income for a household in the town is $60,209, and the median income for a family is $67,375. Males have a media ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 23.6 ms