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 .
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 Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963)
- Nightbirds on Nantucket
- A Harp of Fishbones
- The Whispering Mountain (1968)
- Night Fall (1969)
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