| Name: |
Joan Aiken |
| Birth Date: |
|
| Place of Birth: |
|
| Nationality: |
|
| Gender: |
|
Joan Delano Aiken is one of the most prolific and energetic of living authors, with a body of works that includes novels, short stories, drama, and poetry. She is probably best known for the Wolves Chronicles, a series of loosely connected "unhistorical" novels set in a fictional England in which the Stuarts continue to reign into the nineteenth century and the Hanoverians are the pretenders. However, she also writes adult thrillers and Gothics, juvenile novels set in contemporary England, and modern fairy tales. Within the genre of the short story alone, her versatility is apparent. For example, the contents of A Touch of Chill: Tales for Sleepless Nights (1979) include examples of the classic tale of folk magic, domestic comedy shading into the bizarre, and modern psychological horror. The title suggests the only common factor in the collection: the touch of chill and horror lurking below the surface of even the comic tales.
This is a free page. This page contains 151 words. This
biography contains 4,265 words (approx. 14 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Biography with our Joan (Delano) Aiken Access Pass.
