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	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Joan Aiken
		Joan Aiken, who has died at the age of 79, was an outstanding storyteller for children and adults alike.
		Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex, and lived not far from there all her life.
		This was the first of a number of successes Aiken had with the corporation, which was quick to recognise that her ability to tell a quirky and witty short story made her the ideal author of any number of Jackanory slots.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,1117708,00.html (816 words)

	Aiken biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joan Delano Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex, England, on September 4, 1924.
		Aiken was raised in a rural area and home schooled by her mother until age 12.
		Aiken’s hobbies are painting, gardening at her home (which used to be a pub), and spending time with her two children.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~pbostic/bio.html (418 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Joan Aiken
		Joan Aiken's prose style drew heavily on fairy tales and oral traditions in which plots are fast-moving and horror is matter-of-fact but never grotesque.
		When writing for children, Joan Aiken never pretended that life is easy, or that wickedness, horror and hardship do not exist; indeed, she believed it was vital for children to explore such things.
		Joan Aiken and her elder sister were educated at home by their mother who, on top of the basic curriculum, taught them Latin, French, Spanish and German, and read them great works of literature from the family library.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/07/db0701.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/01/07/ixportal.html (1279 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Joan Aiken, 79, children's author
		LONDON -- Joan Aiken, the author of popular children's books including "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase," "The Whispering Mountain," and "The Winter Sleepwalker," died Sunday at her home in Petworth, southern England.
		Aiken was educated at home until the age of 12.
		Aiken's 1994 collection of stories, "The Winter Sleepwalker," illustrated by Quentin Blake, is regarded by many as her finest book.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/01/10/joan_aiken_79_childrens_author (249 words)

	BCCB--Joan Aiken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aiken's best-known reality-benders are found in a series of alternative history novels for the older middle grades which began with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (BCCB 4/64).
		The wide range of settings, villains, plots, and protagonists (most of which spring from some arm of the Twite clan) allow Aiken to explore nearly every facet of life offered by her imaginary world, and her flair for combining the mythic with the commonplace lends many of her novels the thrill of supernatural danger.
		Aiken's contribution to children's literature is one of sly wit, slanted perspectives, and the everpresent sense that illusion and reality--or danger and safety--are two sides of the same coin.
	alexia.lis.uiuc.edu /puboff/bccb/1204focus.html (546 words)

	Joan Aiken, Black Hearts in Battersea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joan Aiken continues her Wolves Chronicles with Black Hearts in Battersea, a tale of intrigue and treason, featuring Simon the foundling who helped Bonnie and Sylvia Green in The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
		His oddest friendship, though, is with Dido Twite, the youngest member of the Twite household, who, although at first a nuisance and a brat, demonstrates pluck and resourcefulness when Simon stumbles across a plot to displace King James III with the Hanoverian pretender, Bonnie Prince Georgie.
		Aiken's novel is set during an alternate history in which the Hanoverian line did not succeed to the throne.
	www.rambles.net /aiken_battersea.html (365 words)

	Aiken, Joan -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Aiken, the daughter of the American writer Conrad Aiken, was educated at home as a child and grew up with a love of literature.
		Aiken himself faced considerable trauma in his childhood when he found the bodies of his parents after his father had killed his mother and committed...
		The name Joan (probably derived from Johannes, or John) for the legendary pontiff was not finally adopted until the 14th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002763?tocId=9002763 (772 words)

	Blog of Death: Joan Aiken
		The daughter of American writer Conrad Aiken, Joan was reportedly born in a haunted house in Rye, Sussex, England.
		Aiken worked as a features editor for Argosy magazine and a copywriter for an advertising agency while writing plays, poems and short stories in her spare time.
		Aiken and Marriott would eventually work on many books together, including her most famous tale, "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase." The suspenseful story of two girls who are besieged by lupine and human predators was published in 1962, won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and spawned the "Wolves Chronicles."
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000658.html (398 words)

	Shellhouse-Rivers Funeral Home -> Obituary for Name : Joan Beverly Hawkes Marine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joan was always a "room mother" when her children were in school.
		Joan joined her first General Federated Woman's Club, the Clairemont Junior Woman's Club, in San Diego and continued federated service in the Aiken Junior Womanâs Club and was a founding member of the Aiken Womanâs Club.
		Joan was a wonderful person and we were blessed to have her as our friend.
	shellhouseriversfuneralhome.com /viewObit.aspx?id=234 (975 words)

	Joan Aiken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joan Delano Aiken (September 4, 1924 – January 4, 2004) was an English novelist.
		She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father Conrad Aiken, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry and her sister Jane Aiken Hodge.
		For her books she received the Guardian Award (1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joan_Aiken (124 words)

	USM de Grummond Collection - JOAN AIKEN PAPERS
		As a child, Aiken took solitary walks in the fields surrounding her parents' house and concocted stories to amuse herself; when her younger brother grew old enough to tag along, she invented more stories to tell him when he grew tired.
		Contributing to Aiken's imagination were the books her mother read to her from the family library; the works of Scott, Dickens, Tolstoy, Austen, the Brontes, Dumas, even Thurber and Twain made up a regular part of her intellectual diet.
		Aiken insisted that when writing, she never consciously chose a style for her audience; instead some "internal monitor" guided her, insuring that she never abandoned the strong sense of right and wrong that all children have and which appears in Aiken's stories.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/aiken.htm (895 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Analyzes Aiken in terms of recent trends in children's books and links with the past, and discusses what she sees as successes and failures in the individual books.
		Comments on the Dickensian quality of Aiken's work, and calls her "one of the liveliest and most exuberant of today's writers for children." Works discussed include The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Nightbirds on Nantucket, Black Hearts in Battersea, and The Whispering Mountain.
		Aiken discusses her life and work in an interview.
	www.unm.edu /~lhendr/author/author1.09.html (457 words)

	JOAN AIKEN - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE
		Beginning at age 16, Joan Aiken launched a writing career that would last for more than 60 years.
		Born in Rye, England in 1924, Aiken once lived in a haunted house, perhaps the inspiration for much of her later creepy and horror works.
		Joan Aiken died in January 2004 at the age of 79.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/aiken/aiken.htm (233 words)

	Joan Aiken--Black Hearts in Battersea, Nightbirds on Nantucket
		Aiken is especially concerned with the mistreatment of children; one of the hallmarks of her villains is that they are cruel to young people.
		Aiken has said that she did not originally intend for Dido to survive the shipwreck in Black Hearts in Battersea, but changed her mind as a result of a letter from a young reader begging her not to let Dido drown.
		Readers may be grateful to that anonymous letter-writer, for Dido is one of the great heroines of children's literature--confident, ingenious, self-sufficient, and possessed of a sharp understanding of those around her that enables her to make her way even when her situation seems most dire.
	www.sff.net /people/VictoriaStrauss/ReviewWolves.html (866 words)

	Joan Aiken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joan Aiken was born in Sussex, England on September 4, 1924.
		Her father was the American poet Conrad Aiken.
		Aiken was raised in the country and was homeschooled by her mother until Joan was 12 years old.
	www.bookjackets.com /AikenJoan/AikenJoan.html (144 words)

	BookSense.com
		Joan Aiken is the author of the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series of young adult books, as well as more than 60 other books ranging from children's pop-up books to a nonfiction book, The Way to Write for Children.
		Aiken lives with her husband in Sussex, England.
		Joan Aiken: I began writing on my 5th birthday, when I bought a writing pad with birthday money and began filling it with poems and stories.
	www.booksense.com /people/archive/aikenjoan.jsp (1528 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Dido and Pa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aiken's talent for language and dialogue gives voice to the vigorous London street life she portrays: the children of poverty, the sellers of foodstuffs, the laborers.
		The high point of this installment in the Wolves Chronicles is the quirky relationship between Dido and her father, which is portrayed in a rich series of vignettes between them, cunningly spotted along the course of the tale to provide breaks in the otherwise headlong action.
		Joan Aiken writes young adult novels in the style of Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander -- these books are terrifying, beautiful, chilling, funny and intelligent in a way that children's books no longer are and should be.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618196234?v=glance (2054 words)

	Review: Joan Aiken's Short Fiction, reviewed by Jed Hartman
		Another recurring aspect in Aiken's stories is a prose style that draws heavily from fairy tales and oral traditions.
		And it's often hard to decide whether to class a given Aiken story as a kids' story or a grown-ups' story, which is all to the good.
		Aiken's stories about Harriet and Mark Armitage, siblings to whom interesting things are always happening, have appeared scattered about in various of her collections; this volume gathers ten of those stories, and adds a charming "Prelude" that explains why interesting things happen to the Armitages.
	strangehorizons.com /index.pl?Contents=/2001/20011029/collections.shtml (1456 words)

	Locus Online: Joan Aiken interview
		Joan Delano Aiken was born September 4, 1924, daughter of the poet/writer Conrad Aiken.
		Aiken began as a writer of short fiction, works gathered in collections All You've Ever Wanted and Other Stories (1953) and More Than You Bargained For and Other Stories (1955); many further collections would appear in later years.
		She has received awards for children's fiction (the Guardian Award in 1969) and for mystery fiction (the Mystery Writers of America Poe Award, 1972), and has also written ''sequels'' to Jane Austen books, as well as other Regency historicals.
	www.locusmag.com /1998/Issues/05/Aiken.html (977 words)

	Lorem Ipsum: R.I.P., Joan Aiken
		Aiken has been one of my favorite authors since I first read some of her stories in college.
		Favourite stories, like unexpected presents, are things that you can keep and cherish all your life, carry with you, in memory, in your mind’s ear, and bring out, at any time, when you are feeling lonely, or need cheering up, or, like friends, just because you are fond of them.
		Joan Aiken was the GoH at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts a couple of years ago.
	www.kith.org /journals/jed/2004/01/07/1673.html (360 words)

	Joan Aiken (1924-2004) - SFWA News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Daily Telegraph reports that poet playwright and author, Joan Aiken, passed away Sunday, January 4.
		The daughter of Canadian writer, Jessie McDonald Aiken, and Pulitzer Prize winning American poet and writer Conrad Aiken, Joan was born in Rye, Sussex, England, on September 4, 1924.
		Aiken wrote 92 novels across several genres, as well as nonfiction, plays, poems and short fiction.
	www.sfwa.org /News/aiken.htm (151 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Whispering Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joan Delano Aiken is a prolific British author of adult and young adult fantasy, mysteries, and gothic romances.
		Aiken displays a stunning sense of atmosphere, whether it's the pleasantly dull town, sinister castle, or strange underground caverns.
		Set in Wales this book very different from the others that Joan Aiken has written, not using any of the usual main characters or locations, but still maintaining the humour and wild plots that make her writing so wonderful.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765342413?v=glance (1772 words)

	Joan Aiken, The Cockatrice Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joan Aiken’s monsters are portrayed by the wonderfully named Gris Grimley.
		The final chapter of the book seems as if Aiken suddenly realized she had space constrains and was forced to jam five chapters into one, or as though it’s looking for a sequel.
		Aiken has the hard task of making a monster story believable and threatening, but not so scary that children will have nightmares and parents will write angry letters to the publisher.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cockatrice.boys.html (681 words)

	Article: Interview: Joan Aiken, by Gavin J. Grant
		Her latest book, Shadows and Moonshine, is a collection of short stories soon to be published by David Godine, while editions of The Cuckoo Tree, The Stolen Lake, and A Necklace of Raindrops have all been recently reissued.
		She comes from a literary family; her father was the well-known poet Conrad Aiken, and her brother, John Aiken, was also a published writer.
		She still types all her novels on a typewriter, never having moved onto a computer, therefore this interview was conducted by mail.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20011029/interview.shtml (1659 words)

	Aiken, Joan -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		More results on "Aiken, Joan" when you join.
		It was chartered in 1835 and named for the railroad entrepreneur William Aiken.
		Aiken and Redcliffe Plantation state parks are within its boundaries.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002763?tocId=9002763&query=conrad (772 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Midwinter Nightingale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The latest installment of the Wolves Chronicles finds Simon, Duke of Battersea, hiding the dying King Richard from enemies and on the lookout for a missing coronet needed for the coronation of the new king (who will probably be the unwilling Simon).
		I loved Joan Aiken's series, starting with the Wolves of Willoughby Chase, when I was a child, and now at 36 they still have just as much ability to charm me. This latest in the installment had enough excitement and humor to keep me reading cover to cover in one sitting.
		I suppose I was hoping she might wrap up the story, not because I want the series to end (I wish it could go on forever), but because Aiken is 80 after all and I hope she ties up loose ends before she dies.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385730810 (624 words)

	Rising Dove Bookstore: Aiken
		Joan Aiken: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Chronicles
		Dark social commentary makes this one of Aiken's best, but not for younger children.
		Joan Aiken [is] the critically acclaimed author of Cold Shoulder Road and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
	www.risingdove.com /sale/bookstoreaiken.asp (664 words)

	Boing Boing: Joan Aiken -- a kids' author for grownups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These are a series of juvenile adventure stories set in an alternate Victorian England (and abroad, on the high-seas).
		Aiken's ear for dialog and dialect is superb, her characters are rich and well-realized and her stories -- which weave in delicate and subtle fantasy elements -- are gripping as hell.
		Aiken deserves a place among JK Rowling, Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket and JRR Tolkien as one of those rare and wonderful children's authors whose works are equally enjoyable for adults.
	www.boingboing.net /2002/06/16/joan_aiken_a_kids_au.html (235 words)

	Kids at Random House : Author Details for Joan Aiken
		Prize-winning Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924 and came from a family of writers.
		Her father was the novelist and poet, Conrad Aiken and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, writes historical fiction for adults.
		Before joining the 'family business' herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine.
	www.randomhouse.co.uk /catalog/authorcb.htm?authorID=17 (160 words)

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