1. Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels.
10 Facts About Joan Aiken
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Joan Aiken won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Fall.
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Joan Aiken's father was the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken.
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Together with her brother John and her sister Jane, Joan Aiken wrote Conrad Aiken Remembered, a short appreciation of their father.
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Joan Aiken was taught at home by her mother until the age of twelve and from 1936 to 1940 at Wychwood School for girls in North Oxford.
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Joan Aiken worked for the United Nations Information Centre in London between 1943 and 1949.
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Joan Aiken married, secondly, to the New York landscape painter and teacher Julius Goldstein in 1976.
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Joan Aiken produced more than 100 books, including more than a dozen collections of fantasy stories, plays and poems, and modern and historical novels for adults and children.
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Joan Aiken set her adult supernatural novel The Haunting of Lamb House at Lamb House in Rye.
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Joan Aiken participated in the Puffin Book Club's annual Children's Literature Summer Camp, run by Colony Holidays, predecessor to ATE Superweeks, along with other popular children's authors such as Ian Serraillier and Clive King.