Joan Aiken (1924–2004)
Auteur de The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Joan Aiken
Jane Fairfax: The Secret Story of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen's Emma (1990) — Auteur — 377 exemplaires
The Watsons and Emma Watson: Jane Austen's Unfinished Novel Completed by Joan Aiken (1996) 120 exemplaires
The Rented Swan 4 exemplaires
Mitox (I) 3 exemplaires
Clem's Dream [short fiction] 3 exemplaires
Treffpunkt Kuckucksbaum 2 exemplaires
Arabel und die entflohene Schwarze Mamba. 2 exemplaires
A Necklace of Raindrops [short story] 2 exemplaires
Hair (short story) 2 exemplaires
Stoneywish and other chilling stories: A Bloomsbury Reader (Bloomsbury Readers) (2020) 2 exemplaires
O Sonâmbulo do inverno 2 exemplaires
Der Schrei: Geisterstunde 2 exemplaires
Autograph, (Children's S. F. Writer), S. 3x5 1 exemplaire
The Adventures of Arabel and Mortimer: Arabel and the Escaped Black Mamba / Arabel's Raven / Mortimer's Portrait on… 1 exemplaire
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase - Classic 1 exemplaire
1992 1 exemplaire
1991 1 exemplaire
HL' Iorso e la fanciulla e altre storie 1 exemplaire
Mortimer und die Brottrommel 1 exemplaire
Ghostly Beasts 1 exemplaire
Das Todesparfüm 1 exemplaire
Arabel and Mortimer [Arabel And Mortimer Book 6] 1 exemplaire
הזאבים מאחוזת וילובי 1 exemplaire
Mystery in Nantucket ...from NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET 1 exemplaire
I lupi di Willoughby Chase 1 exemplaire
Lodgers [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
L' Eredita' Contesa 1 exemplaire
Harp Music (short story) 1 exemplaire
Lungewater [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Elves in the Shelves [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick {short story} 1 exemplaire
Goblin Music 1 exemplaire
Find Me 1 exemplaire
The Companion 1 exemplaire
Finders Keepers 1 exemplaire
Marmalade Wine [short story] 1 exemplaire
Water of Youth (short story) 1 exemplaire
A Mermaid Too Many [short story] 1 exemplaire
Octopi in the Sky (short story) 1 exemplaire
Model Wife (short story) 1 exemplaire
Second Thoughts (short story) 1 exemplaire
Girl in a Whirl (short story) 1 exemplaire
Red-Hot Favourite (short story) 1 exemplaire
Spur of the Moment (short story) 1 exemplaire
The Paper Queen (short story) 1 exemplaire
The Magnesia Tree (short story) 1 exemplaire
The Fluttering Thing (short story) 1 exemplaire
Honeymaroon (short story) 1 exemplaire
The Sale of Midsummer (short story) 1 exemplaire
The Helper (short story) 1 exemplaire
The Monkey's Wedding (short story) 1 exemplaire
Wee Robin (short story) 1 exemplaire
Mortimers Kreuz. 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Princess and the Goblin (Collins Seagull Library) (1872) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 5,495 exemplaires
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Auteur — 1,563 exemplaires
L'insupportable Bassington : Suivi de quatre nouvelles inédites (1912) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 308 exemplaires
The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson (1992) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 290 exemplaires
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Contributeur — 199 exemplaires
Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (1985) — Contributeur — 161 exemplaires
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Three (2009) — Contributeur — 143 exemplaires
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Contributeur — 97 exemplaires
Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex (1975) — Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares II: More Tales to Make You Scream (1997) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight (1995) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July/August 2011, Vol. 121, Nos. 1 & 2 (2011) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Geschichten Geschichten Geschichten . Zum Vorlesen und zum Selberlesen. Bilder von Ingrid Schneider (1988) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird: 48 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2024) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
The Illustrated Treasury of Literature/Modern Literature For Children (Boxed Set) (1986) 4 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 6, February 1977 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 11, July 1977 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 10, June 1977 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Yearling Gift Library For Girls Set 1: Charlotte's Web, Roller Skates, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Harriet the… — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Goldstein, Joan Delano Aiken Brown
- Date de naissance
- 1924-09-04
- Date de décès
- 2004-01-04
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Petworth, West Sussex, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
New York, USA - Études
- Wychwood School for Girls, Oxford
- Professions
- Children's Author
Novelist
Advertising Copywriter
Editor - Relations
- Aiken, Conrad (father)
Armstrong, Martin (stepfather)
Hodge, Jane Aiken (sister)
Aiken, John (brother)
Brown, Ronald George (husband)
Goldstein, Julius (husband) (tout afficher 7)
Aiken, Lizza (daughter) - Organisations
- BBC
Argosy - Prix et distinctions
- Guardian Award (1969)
Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (1999) - Agent
- A. M. Heath & Co.
- Courte biographie
- 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.
Membres
Discussions
British Author Challenge January 2024: Joan Aiken & Arthur Conan Doyle à 75 Books Challenge for 2024 (Février 17)
THE DEEP ONES: "Cold Flame" by Joan Aiken à The Weird Tradition (Septembre 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "Reading in Bed" by Joan Aiken à The Weird Tradition (Juin 2022)
Joan Aiken romance- main female lead dies à Name that Book (Mars 2016)
Critiques
Listes
Sonlight Books (2)
Edgar Award (1)
grrrrrl power (1)
Best Young Adult (1)
Ghosts (1)
1964 Project (1)
Spirit of Place (1)
1960s (1)
Books with Twins (1)
Austenland (5)
Children's Humor (4)
Elevenses (3)
Female Author (3)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 212
- Aussi par
- 125
- Membres
- 18,058
- Popularité
- #1,220
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 418
- ISBN
- 1,005
- Langues
- 20
- Favoris
- 76