Joan Delano Aiken (September 4 1924 – January 4 2004) was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father Conrad Aiken, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry and her sister Jane Aiken Hodge .

She worked for the BBC and the UNIC , before she started writing professionally, mainly children's books and thrillers. For her books she received the Guardian Award (1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972).

Notable works

• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963)
• Nightbirds on Nantucket
• A Harp of Fishbones
• The Whispering Mountain (1968)
• Night Fall (1969)

External links

• Incomplete Bibliography
• Bibliography at SciFan
• Bibliography and biography