Bio:Joan Aiken

Joan Delano Aiken (b. 1924) was born in a haunted house in Rye, Sussex, and has always had a passion for ghost stories. She began working for BBC Radio in 1944 and later in the United London office as the Features Editor of Argosy magazine and as a copywriter in an advertising agency. She took up full-time writing in 1962, since when she has produced an impressive number of fantasies, ghost stories and mysteries for children and adults, including The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (filmed in 1988), Black Hearts Over Battersea and The Cockatrice Boys. Her short fiction has been collected i nsuch volumes as All You've Ever Wanted, A Small Pinch of Weather, The Windscreen Weepers, The Green Flash, <I>A Bundle of Nerves</i>, <I>A Touch of Chill</i>, <I>A Whisper in the Night</i>, <I>A Goose on Your Grave</i>, and <I>A Fit of Shivers</i>, amongst others. She has also written several historical romances and sequels to works by Jane Austen. The daughter of writer Conrad Aiken, she is married to the American landscape painter Julius Goldstein. The divide their time between Petworth, West Sussex, and New York.

(from biographical intro in <I>Dancing With the Dark</i>)Ofearna 08:24, 11 September 2012 (UTC)