Joan Aiken

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Joan Aiken

Literature

#1502

World Rank

#2974

Historical Rank

Writing

#600

World Rank

#900

Historical Rank

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Why Is Joan Aiken Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. 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. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Fall.

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What Are Joan Aiken's Academic Contributions?

Joan Aiken is most known for their academic work in the field of literature. They are also known for their academic work in the fields of

Joan Aiken has made the following academic contributions:

• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
• The Whispering Mountain
• The Stolen Lake
• The Cuckoo Tree
• Nightbirds on Nantucket
• Is Underground
• Black Hearts in Battersea