![]() Her most popular series, the "Wolves Chronicles" which began with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, was set in an elaborate alternate period of history in a Britain in which James II was never deposed in the Glorious Revolution,and so supporters of the House of Hanover continually plot to overthrow the Stuart Kings. ![]() For her books she received the Guardian Award (1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972). ![]() She worked for the United Nations Information Office during the second world war, and then as an editor and freelance on Argosy magazine before she started writing full time, mainly children's books and thrillers. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, Conrad Aiken (who won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry), and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge. ![]() She was known as a writer of wild fantasy, Gothic novels and short stories. Joan Aiken was a much loved English writer who received the MBE for services to Children's Literature. ![]()
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