But I'd written two chapters with great confidence and joy. ''I started The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, the first of my alternate-history fantasies, in about 1952, and then it got broken off because my husband fell ill and died, and I had to get a job, and couldn't get on with it. This series began with her second novel, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962), and is still in progress, interspersed with stand-alone fantasies, dark fantasies, mysteries, children's books, plays, poetry, etc. But to Locus readers she will be best known as the author of the alternate-world YA series (sometimes called ''King James III'') featuring feisty heroine Dido Twite. She has received awards for children's fiction (the Guardian Award in 1969) and for mystery fiction (the Mystery Writers of America Poe Award, 1972), and has also written ''sequels'' to Jane Austen books, as well as other Regency historicals. Aiken began as a writer of short fiction, works gathered in collections All You've Ever Wanted and Other Stories (1953) and More Than You Bargained For and Other Stories (1955) many further collections would appear in later years. Her new stepfather was another writer, Martin Armstrong. Joan Delano Aiken was born September 4, 1924, daughter of the poet/writer Conrad Aiken. (excerpted from Locus Magazine, May 1998)
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