Joan Aiken Net Worth
Joan Aiken Net Worth is
$4 Million
Joan Aiken Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternate 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 once-in-a-lifetime 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 subject. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall. | Date Of Birth | September 4, 1924, Rye, United Kingdom |
| Died | January 4, 2004, Petworth, United Kingdom |
| Place Of Birth | Rye, Sussex, England, UK |
| Profession | Writer |
| Parents | Conrad Aiken, Jessie McDonald |
| Siblings | Jane Aiken Hodge, John Aiken |
| Awards | Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Edgar Award for Best Juvenile |
| Star Sign | Virgo |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Two children: John Sebastian Brown and Elizabeth Delano (later Elizabeth Delano Charlaff). |
| 2 | She was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honors List for her services to children's literature. |
| 3 | She was the author of at least two books a year for half a century of all genres: detective novels, children's historical fantasies, urban fantasies, supernatural, Gothic, historical romances, horror, fairy tales, and more. |
| 4 | She was the sister of writers, Jane Aiken Hodge and John Aiken. |
| 5 | She was the daughter of author Conrad Aiken. |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hearts in Battersea | 1995-1996 | TV Series novel - 6 episodes | |
| Mortimer & Arabel | 1993 | TV Series writer | |
| Jackanory | TV Series book - 10 episodes, 1968 - 1971 novel - 2 episodes, 1974 - 1991 story - 2 episodes, 1970 - 1971 | ||
| The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | 1989 | book | |
| Dozhdlivaya istoriya | 1988 | Short fairytale | |
| Mort un dimanche de pluie | 1986 | novel "Died on a Rainy Sunday" | |
| Jackanory Playhouse | 1979 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Shadows | TV Series 1 episode, 1976 writer - 1 episode, 1978 | ||
| Midnight Is a Place | 1977-1978 | TV Series novel - 13 episodes | |
| The Apple of Discord | 1977 | TV Movie | |
| Night Gallery | 1971 | TV Series short story - 1 episode |
Known for movies
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989)
as Writer
Jackanory (1968-1991)
as Writer
Mort un dimanche de pluie (1986)
as Writer
Midnight Is a Place (1977-1978)
as Writer