Joan Delano Aiken's resume: 9/41924 was born in Rye, Sussex, England. Her father, American poet Conrad Aiken, 1930 won the Pulitzer Prize. Her mother, Canadian Jesse MacDonald Aiken, Joan didn't go to school before 12 years old and has been studying at home under her mother's guidance. /kloc-After 0/2 years old, she went to WYCHWOOD School in Oxford. When I was a child, because I was lonely, I often made up stories for myself and my later half-brother. Most of the stories she made up took place in her own fantasy places. Joan used to work for the BBC. St. Thomas Hospital, and worked in the United Nations Office in London for 10 years. In the meantime, she has been writing. She married Ronald George Brown in 1945 and had two children. John Sebastian and Elizabeth Delano Aiken published her collection of short stories in 1953. 1952, she began to write about Willoughby's wolf chase. In the meantime, her husband was seriously ill, so his writing stopped. Her husband 1955 died of lung cancer. For economic reasons, she continued to write. 1963, she finally finished the chase of the Wolf of Willoughby. This book later won the lewis carroll Bookshelf Award. 1972 her other teenage thriller, Night Fall, won the edgar allan poe AWARE (Edgar Allen Prize) in the United States. She said in an interview, "Why do we live in another (fantasy) world? Because this is a way of progress. I hope that writing can take us to a better place than reality. " Joan has always insisted that she never chooses a writing style for some readers. She also firmly believes that when writing for teenagers, the author should show readers that life is hard or not always happy. However, life is still beautiful. Joan died in England on June 5th+10/October 4th, 2004. This website has the names and dates of all her works.