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A Short Biography of Joan Aiken

Author Name:

Joan Aiken

Born As:

Joan Delano Aiken

Other Names:

Joan Delano Aiken

Born:

4 Sep 1924

Died:

4 Jan 2004




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Novelist and short story writer                          
Selected Works:

Wolves Chronicles - in narrative order

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - 1963
Black Hearts in Battersea - 1964
Nightbirds on Nantucket - 1966
The Stolen Lake - 1981
Dangerous Games, published in the UK as Limbo Lodge - 1999
The Cuckoo Tree - 1971
Dido and Pa - 1986
Is Underground - British title: Is - 1992
Cold Shoulder Road - 1995
Midwinter Nightingale - 2003
The Witch of Clatteringshaws - 2005

More Hanoverian stories:

Midnight is a Place
The Whispering Mountain - 1968

Arabel and Mortimer series:

Arabel's Raven - 1972
Escaped Black Mamba - 1973
The Bread Bin - 1974
Mortimer's Tie - 1976
The Spiral Stair - 1979
Arabel and Mortimer - 1980
Mortimer's Portrait on Glass - 1981
The Mystery of Mr Jones's Disappearing Taxi - 1982
Mortimer's Cross - 1983
Arabel and the Escaped Black Mamba - 1984
A Call at the Joneses - 1985
Mortimer Says Nothing - 1985
Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur - 1987
Mortimer and Arabel - 1992
The Adventures of Arabel and Mortimer - 1993
Mortimer's Mine - 1994
Mayhem in Rumbury - 1995
Mortimer's Bread Bin - 2001


Others - chronological:
Felix series

The Third Wish - 1955
Night Fall - 1969
The Green Flash - 1971
A Harp of Fishbones - 1972
Mansfield Revisited - 1984
Emma Watson: The Watsons Completed - 1996
Jane Fairfax: The Secret Story of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen's Emma - 1997
The Youngest Miss Ward - 1998
Lady Catherine's Necklace - 2000.                          
Father, Conrad Aiken - won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry, and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge.