![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their mother, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald (1889–1970), was a Master's graduate from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her older brother was the writer and research chemist John Aiken (1913–1990), and her older sister was the writer Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009). Her father was the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken (1889–1973). She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.Īiken was born in Mermaid Street in Rye, Sussex, on 4 September 1924. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. ![]()
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