Joan Aiken

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Joan Delano Aiken (born September 4, 1924 in Rye , Sussex , England , † January 4, 2004 in Petworth , West Sussex ) was a British writer . She wrote fantasy and mystery novels and fantasy stories for children.

Life

Joan Aiken was the daughter of the American poet, writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Conrad Aiken and the Canadian writer Jessie McDonald-Aiken .

Until she was twelve years old, Joan was tutored by her mother at home in Sussex. She then attended Wychwood School in Oxford . She was an introverted child who read a lot. She grew up studying books by James Thurber , Walter Scott , Charles Dickens , Lev Tolstoy , Jane Austen , the Brontë sisters , Alexandre Dumas , Mark Twain , Edgar Allan Poe and Rudyard Kipling . Even as a child, she was inspired by these role models to write her own stories.

In 1941, Joan Aiken published successfully for the first time: the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) brought some of their stories to children's programs.

Joan Aiken worked first for the BBC, then for St. Thomas Hospital and in the London office of the United Nations . She was writing stories all the time. In 1945 she married Ronald George Brown, with whom she had two children.

In 1953 she published a collection of her short stories under the title All You've Ever Wanted and Other Stories . When her husband developed lung cancer , she stopped writing until he died in 1955. It wasn't until 1963 that she published her book The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (which she had started to write in 1952). For the book she was honored with the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1965 . Her next book, Night Fall , received the 1972 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Juvenile Mystery.

She wrote five follow-up novels to Jane Austen.

In addition to writing, Joan Aiken spent as much time as possible with her children. She painted and was a passionate gardener.

She died in her Sussex home in 2004 at the age of 79.

Works

Series Arabel and Mortimer

  • 1972: Arabels Rabe ( Arabel's Raven ) German first edition together with Escaped Black Mamba under the title "Regenwassergasse number six" 1977, Oetinger
  • 1973: Arabel and the escaped Black Mamba ( Arabel and Mortimer and the Escaped Black Mamba ) German first edition together with Arabels Raven under the title Regenwassergasse number six 1977, Oetinger
  • 1974: Mortimer und die Brottrommel ( The Bread Bin / Mortimer's Bread Bin ) German first edition together with Mortmer's Tie under the title Arabel und Mortimer auf Kreuzfahrt 1978, Oetinger
  • 1976: Mortimers Tie ( Mortimer's Tie ) German first edition together with The Bread Bin under the title Arabel und Mortimer auf Kreuzfahrt 1978, Oetinger
  • 1979: Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur, German first edition 1994, Fischer
  • 1979: Die Wendeltreppe ( The Spiral Stair ) German first edition 1995, Fischer
  • 1982: The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi (Alternative title: The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi ) German first edition together with Mortimer's Cross under the title Raben haben kein Adutritt 1984, Oetinger
  • 1982: Holidays with Mortimer ( Mortimer's Portrait on Glass ) German first edition 1995, Fischer
  • 1983: Mortimers Cross ( Mortimer's Cross ) German first edition together with The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi under the title Ravens have no access 1984, Oetinger
  • 1985: A Call from the Joneses
  • 1985: Mortimer Says Nothing
  • 1985: Mr. Jones's Rest Cure
  • 1985: Arabel's Birthday 1995, Fischer
  • 1992: Mortimer and Arabel ( Mortimer and Arabel ) together with Lizza Aiken 1995, Oetinger
  • 1994: Mortimer's Mine together with Lizza Aiken
  • 1995: Mayhem in Rumbury with Lizza Aiken

Felix series

  • 1977: Bridle the Wind Oetinger, 1979
  • 1983: Go Saddle the Sea ( Go Saddle the Sea ) Oetinger, 1983
  • 1988: Go tame the mountain ( Teeth of the Gale ) Oetinger, 1988

Series The Wolves of Willoughby

  • 1962: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Bertelsmann, 1971
  • 1964: Conspiracy at Battersea Castle ( Black Hearts in Battersea ) Bertelsmann, 1972
  • 1966: Attack on Nantucket ( Nightbirds on Nantucket ) Oetinger, 1975 ( Also published by Omnibus in 2000 under the title In the hands of the conspirators )
  • 1968: The Whispering Mountain Oetinger, 1972
  • 1971: Treffpunkt K ( The Cuckoo Tree ) Oetinger, 1973 ( also published by Omnibus under the title Treffpunkt Kuckucksbaum 2001)
  • 1981: The Stolen Lake
  • 1986: Dido and Pa
  • 1992: The Children of Holderness ( Is / Is-Underground ) Oetinger, 1994
  • 1995: Isa and the smugglers' gang ( Cold Shoulder Road ) Oetinger, 1996
  • 1999: The death cliff of Aratu ( Limbo lodge / Dangerous Games ) Oetinger, 2000
  • 2003: The Nightingale's Death Call ( Midwinter Nightingale ) Oetinger, 2004
  • 2005: The Witch of Clatteringshaws ( The Witch of Clatteringshaws ) Oetinger, 2005

Sequels and complementary novels to Jane Austen

  • 1984: Mansfield Revisited sequel to Mansfield Park
  • 1990: Jane Fairfax ( Jane Fairfax ) sequel to Emma (Diogenes, 1993)
  • 1994: Eliza's Daughter Continuation of Mind and Emotion (Diogenes, 1996)
  • 1996: Emma Watson ( Emma Watson ) completing The Watsons (Diogenes, 1997)
  • 1998: The Youngest Miss Ward sequel to Mansfield Park (Diogenes, 2000)
  • 2001: The Jewelry of Lady Catherine ( Lady Catherine's Necklace ) Continuation of Pride and Prejudice (Diogenes, 2001)

Single track

  • 1953: All You've Ever Wanted (19 fantasy stories, some of which were published by Oetinger in 1974 in the volume No day like everyone else, also in German) with the stories:
    • All you've ever wanted
    • Yes, But Today It's Tuesday
    • The Ghostly Governess
    • The Sweet Singeing Choir
    • Harriet's Birthday Present
    • Dragon Monday
    • The Frozen Cuckoo
    • The Parrot Pirate Princess
    • John Sculpin and the Witches
    • Magic iron
    • Cooks and Profecies
    • The Gardener and the Fork
    • Musicians out of work
    • The King That Stood All Night
    • The Brat Who Knew Too Much
    • The True History of Good King Wenceslas
    • The Rocking Donkey
    • The Lobster's Birthday
    • The Wolves and the Mermaids
  • 1955: More Than You Bargained for (14 fantasy stories, some of which were published by Oetinger in 1974 in the volume Kein Tag wie everyone else, also in German) with the stories:
    • More Than You Bargained For
    • Rocket full of pie
    • Armitage, Armitage, Fly Away Home ** Doll's House to Let, mod. con.
    • Tea at Ravensburgh
    • The People in the Castle
    • Don't Pay the Postman
    • The Third Wash
    • Pigeon Cake for Miss Samphire
    • The Mysterious Barricades
    • Nutshells, seashells
    • Catch the Christmas Train
    • Some Music for the Wicked Countess
    • A room for the leaves
  • 1960: The Magic Treasure of Astalon ( The Kingdom and the Cave ) Oetinger, 1976 (children's book)
  • 1964: The Silence of Herondale (novel)
  • 1965: The Fortune Hunters (novel)
  • 1966: The Perfume of Death (USA: Beware of the Bouquet ; GB: Trouble with Product X ) Heyne, 1973 (new translation: Trouble with Product X Diogenes, 1987) (novel)
  • 1967: Hate begins at Home (GB: Hate begins at Home ; USA: Dark Interval ) Diogenes, 1988 (novel)
  • 1967: Die Kristallkrähe (GB: The Ribs of Death ; USA: The Crystal Crow ) Diogenes, 1974 (novel)
  • 1968: Armitage Armitage Fly Away Home (11 stories by the Armitage family, 4 of which appeared in All You've Ever Wanted ). The remaining 7 stories:
    • Prelude
    • Harriet's Hairloom
    • The Land of Trees and Heroes
    • The Stolen Quince Tree
    • A batch of Magic Wands
    • The Apple of Trouble
    • The Serial Garden
  • 1968: Raindrops chain ( A Necklace of Raindrops ) with Jan Pienkowski (picture book with 8 bedtime stories) Ravensburg Read + Freizeit Verlag, 1984. Title of the stories:
    • A Necklace of Raindrops
    • The Cat Sat on the Mat
    • There's Some Sky in this Pie
    • The Elves in the Shelves
    • The Baker's Cat
    • A bed for the night
    • The patchwork quilt
  • 1969: A Small Pinch of Weather (12 stories, 5 already published in Armitage, Armitage, Fly Away Home ). The remaining 7 titles:
    • A Small Pinch of Weather
    • Broomsticks and Sardines
    • The Boy Who Read Aloud
    • The cost of night
    • Smoke from Cromwell's Time
    • The Lilac in the Lake
    • A Leg Full of Rubies
  • 1969: The Windscreen Weepers (23 stories, some of them in German under the title Wie es ich einfickt, published by Diogenes in 1991):
    • Jam Wine
    • Belle of the Ball
    • Mrs. Considine
    • Follow my fancy
    • Dead Language Master
    • A Train Full of War-Lords
    • As gay as cheese
    • Cricket
    • Elephant's Ear
    • The Green Flash
    • Island Wedding
    • Minette
    • Mouse work
    • The Dreamers
    • Jugged Hare
    • Summer by the Sea
    • Sailors' Legends
    • Socksy boy
    • Pride of the Circle Y
    • Searching for Summer
    • A View of the Heath
    • The Davenport Ballroom
    • The Windscreen Weepers
  • 1969: Dreams sweet, little Meggie ( Night Fall ) (novel) Herbig, 1978 (alternative title: Die Lady aus Cornwall 1986, Heyne; "Nightfall" 2008, Langen-Müller)
  • 1970: Smoke from Cromwell's Time (14 short stories, 12 of which have already appeared in other short story collections). The remaining two:
    • The River Boy
    • The Gift Pig
  • 1970: The Embroidered Sunset Heyne, 1975 (New translation: Diogenes' framed sunset , 1986) (novel)
  • 1971: The Kingdom Under the Sea (picture book with illustrations by Jan Pienkowski) 11 stories:
    • The Kingdom Under the Sea
    • The Imprisoned Queen
    • Baba Yaga's daughter
    • The Sun-God's Castle
    • The Reed Girl
    • The King Who Declared War on the Animals
    • The Venetian Princess
    • The pear tree
    • The Sun's cousin
    • The Golden-fleeded Ram and the Hundred Elephants
    • The Goose Girl
  • 1972: A Harp of Fishbones (14 stories, 2 already published in Smoke on Cromwell's Time ):
    • A Harp of Fishbones
    • The Boy with the Wolf's Foot
    • Mr. Nutti's Fireplace
    • Hope
    • The Lost Five Minutes
    • The Rose of Puddle Fratrum
    • A Jar of Cobblestones
    • A Long Day Without Water
    • The Prince of Darkness
    • Two Tales of Burnt Porridge
    • Humblepuppy
    • The Dark Streets of Kimball's Green
  • 1972: Die Insel des Schreens (GB: The Butterfly Picnic ; USA: A Cluster of Separate Sparks ) Heyne, 1976 (novel)
  • 1972: Shadows of Doom ( Died on a Rainy Sunday ) Heyne, 1975 (new translation: Dead people don't talk about the weather ) Diogenes, 1986
  • 1972: Winterthing (drama)
  • 1973: The Mooncusser's Daughter (Drama)
  • 1974: Midnight Is A Place Diogenes, 1994 (novel)
  • 1975: Voices in an empty House Diogenes, 1994 (novel)
  • 1976: Castle Barebane (novel)
  • 1976: The Skin Spinners (collection of poems)
  • 1976: A Bundle of Nerves Oetinger, 1984 (19 stories, 6 already in The Windscreen Weepers )
    • The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick
    • Do you Dig Grieg
    • Five Green Moons
    • Smell
    • Furry Night
    • Sultan's Splash
    • A Set For Every Sheep
    • Our Feathered Friends
    • Postman's Knock
    • The Cold Flame
    • Lodging for the night
    • Safe and Soundproof
    • Sonata for Harp and Bycicle
  • 1977 The Faithless Lollybird (14 fantasy stories):
    • Moonshine in the Mustard Pot
    • The Cat Who Lived in a Drainpipe
    • A handful of dark-blue fur
    • The Night the Stars Were Gone
    • The Faithless Lollybird
    • Kiss Your Hand to the Magpie
    • The Looking-Glass Tree
    • The Dodge's Ring
    • Memory
    • The Man Who Pinched God's Letter
    • Crusader's Toby
    • A tray of tea
    • The Rain Child
    • Cat's Cradle
  • 1977: The Five-Minute Marriage Diogenes, 1993 (novel)
  • 1977: The Last Movement Diogenes, 1989 (novel)
  • 1977: The Far Forests (15 stories, 4 of them in no previous volume of stories) Some of them in German under the title "How it comes to me" published in 1991 by Diogenes
    • The Far Forests
    • The Story About Caruso
    • The Rented Swan
    • A Taxi to Solitude
  • 1978: The Smile of the Stranger Heyne, 1980 (novel)
  • 1978: Mr. Mendelson & Co ( Mice and Mendelson ) Oetinger, 1987 (picture book, illustrated by Babette Cole, 7 stories):
    • The Bag of Time
    • Mr. Mendelsohn Goes Backwards
    • Pastry in the Sky
    • Managing without the moon
    • The Fiery Christmas Tree
    • Looking after pink
    • Mr. Mendelsohn Learns to Fly
  • 1978 Tale of a One Way Street (picture book, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski, 8 stories)
    • Tale of a One-Way Street
    • The Lions
    • Bridget's Hat
    • The goodbye song
    • The Queen of the Moon
    • Clean sheets
    • The Alarm Cook
    • The Tractor, the Duck and the Drum
  • 1978: Street (Drama)
  • 1979: A Touch of Chill ( A Touch of Chill ) Oetinger, 1981 (15 stories, 10 in the German version, 7 different stories each in the British and American versions, a total of 22 stories, 15 of them in no previous volume of stories)
    • Lodgers
    • Hey
    • The Sawenee Glide
    • Listening
    • Time to laugh
    • Power-out
    • Who Goes Down this Dark Road
    • A Game of Black and White
    • The Companion
    • The Helper
    • The Cat Flap and the Apple Pie
    • She Was Afraid of Upstairs
    • The Birthday Party
    • Mousework
    • A long way to swim
  • 1980: Fanny and Scylla (GB: The Lightning Tree ; USA: The Weeping Ash ) Diogenes, 1990 (novel)
  • 1980: The Shadow Guests Diogenes, 1990 (novel)
  • 1982: The Girl from Paris (USA: The Girl from Paris ; GB: The Young Lady from Paris ) Diogenes, 1985 (novel)
  • 1982: The Way to Write for Children (non-fiction book)
  • 1982: Ein Raunen im Nacht ( A Whisper in the Night ) Oetinger, 1983 (13 stories, 9 in the German version, 6 different stories each in the British and American versions, a total of 19 stories, 16 of them in no previous volume of stories)
    • Old fillikin
    • Miss Spitfire
    • Finders Keeper
    • The Hunchback of Brook Green
    • Mrs. Chatterbox
    • The Swan Child
    • Merminster
    • The Black Cliffs
    • Sultan: a friend
    • Hanging matter
    • Picnic area
    • Praise girl
    • The Windowbox Waltz
    • Two races
    • Snow Horse
    • Homer's Whistle
    • The Last Specimen
  • 1983: The Party Cook ( Foul Matter ) Diogenes, 1996 (novel)
  • 1983: Prince Coriander and the Trolls from the Freezer ( The Kitchen Warriors ) Diogenes, 1998 (picture book, illustrated by Jo Worth, 5 stories)
    • Prince Coriander's Return
    • The Cat Mistigris
    • The Nixie's Rescue
    • The Furnace Dragon
    • The Kelpies' Bowl
  • 1984: Up The Chimney Down (15 stories, 12 of them in no previous book of stories)
    • The Last Chimney Cuckoo
    • Mrs. Hooting's Legacy
    • The Gift Giving
    • The Dog on the Roof
    • The Missing Heir
    • Up the Chimney Down
    • Christmas at Troy
    • The Midnight Rose
    • The Happiest Sheep in London
    • The Fire Dogs
    • A portable elephant
    • Potter's Gray
  • 1984: Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice (picture book with the 3 cover stories)
  • 1985: The Last Slice of the Rainbow Diogenes, 1987 (picture book, illustrated by Margaret Walty, 9 stories)
    • The Last Slice of Rainbow
    • Clem's Dream
    • A leaf in the shape of a key
    • The Queen with Screaming Hair
    • The Tree that Loved a Girl
    • Lost - One Pair of Legs
    • The Voice in the Shell
    • The Spider in the Bath
    • Think a word
  • 1986: Past Eight O'Clock (picture book, Ill .: Jan Pienkowski) 8 stories
    • Past Eight O'Clock
    • Your cradle is green
    • Pappa's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
    • Bye baby bunting
    • Oh Can Ye Sew Cushions
    • Lullay Lulla
    • Hushabye Baby on the Tree Top
    • Four Angels to my Bed
  • 1987: You are Me - The Story of a Deception (USA: Deception , GB: If I Were You ) Diogenes, 1989 (novel)
  • 1987: Tim, the moon and the monster ( The Moon's Revenge ) Oetinger, 1988 (picture book, Ill .: Alan Lee)
  • 1987: The Haunting of Lamb House Diogenes, 1995 (novel)
  • 1987: A Goose on Your Grave (11 stories, 6 not yet published in a previous volume)
    • Your mind is a mirror
    • Wing Quack Flag
    • The Old Poet
    • The Lame King
    • The blades
    • Aunt Susan
  • 1988: The Earl King's Daughter (novel)
  • 1988: Voices (USA: Return to Harken House ) novel
  • 1989: Fear and Fear ( Blackground ) Diogenes, 1991 (novel)
  • 1989: Conrad Aiken Remembered (non-fiction book, biography of the father, with John and Jane Aiken)
  • 1989: A Foot in the Grave (8 stories)
    • Cold Harbor
    • Movable eyes
    • Beezlebub's baby
    • A foot in the grave
    • Light work
    • An Ill wind
    • Bindweed
    • Amberland
  • 1989: Give Yourself a Fright (13 stories, 8 of which were not in any previous volume)
    • Do not alight here
    • The Jealous Apprentice
    • A Ryme for Silver
    • The Ill Matured Muse
    • The End of Silence
    • The King of Nowhere
    • Find me
    • Give yourself a fright
  • 1990: A Fit of Shivers (10 short stories)
    • Number Four, Bowstring Lane
    • Earrings
    • An L-Shaped Grave
    • Something
    • Birthday Gifts
    • The Rose Garden Dream
    • Watkyn, comma
    • The Shrieking Door
    • Cousin alice
    • The Legacy
  • 1991: The Winter Sleepwalker Diogenes, 2000 (fantasy picture book) 8 Stories:
    • Over the Clody Mountains
    • Blazing Shadows
    • Melusina
    • A basket of water
    • The Liquorice Tree
    • Furious Hill
    • The Winter Sleepwalker
    • Catch a falling word
  • 1991: The Shoemaker's Boy (novel)
  • 1992: Anderland ( Morningquest ) Diogenes, 1994 (novel)
  • 1993: The Midnight Moropus (novel)
  • 1993: A Creepy Company (13 stories, 10 in no previous volume)
    • Dead Men's Lane
    • My Disability
    • Toomie
    • They have find out
    • Little nym
    • The traitor
    • The from day to day
    • Fastness of Light
    • The Thing in Waiting
    • The Ferry
  • 1996: The Cockatrice Boys (novel / book for young people)
  • 1997: The Jewel Seed (novel)
  • 1998: Moon Cake (14 stories, 13 not published in any other book of stories)
    • Moon cake
    • Barmkins Are Best
    • The Feather and the Page
    • Hot water
    • The Green Arches
    • Hatching trouble
    • Milo's New World
    • The Mysterious Meadow
    • Petticoat palm
    • The World Next Door
    • The Silver Cup
    • The King of the Forest
    • Wheelbarrow Castle
  • 2000: Helena and the Wild Man (picture book)
  • 2000: Serve Me Stefan (picture book)
  • 2000: Wise Girl (picture book)
  • 2001: In Thunder's Dream (novel, first book from St Ives)
  • 2001: Song of Mat and Ben (novel, second book from St. Ives)
  • 2002: Der Schrei ( The Scream ) dtv, 2003 (novel)
  • 2002: Ghostly Beasts (Stories and poems already published in other volumes, illustrated by Amanda Harvey)
  • 2002: Bone And Dream (novel, third book from St. Ives)
  • 2002: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (picture book, illustrated by Belinda Downes)
  • 2004: The Wooden Dragon (picture book, Ill .: Bee Willey)

Awards

Film adaptations

  • 1986: Murder on a rainy Sunday ( Mort un dimanche de pluie )
  • 1988: The Wolves of Willoby ( The wolves of Willoughby Chase )

literature

  • Anne Commire: Joan Aiken . In: dies .: Something About the Author. Volume 2. Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People . Gale Research Book Tower, Detroit 1971, pp. 1-2

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Aiken, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aiken, Joan Delano (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Rye , Sussex , England
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2004
Place of death Petworth , West Sussex