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

• The Whispering Mountain[?] (1968)
• Night Fall[?] (1969)
• Emma Watson: The Watsons Completed (1996)