Joan Aiken
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was a popular and successful later twentieth-century writer of short stories and longer fictions for children, most of which are fantasies or have strong supernatural or mystery elements. She also wrote adult novels (both thrillers and romances), and last of all of a series of sequels to novels by
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- BirthName: Joan Delano Aiken She never wrote under both her given names, but is often listed under them in the USA.
- Married: Brown; Goldstein
- Pseudonyms: Nicholas Dee; John Silver
- Indexed: Joan Aiken