Quote of the day
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
Joan Aiken
Born: September 4, 1924
Died: January 4, 2004 (aged 79)
Bio: Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an for her services to children's literature.
Known for:
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962)
- Black Hearts in Battersea (1964)
- The Whispering Mountain (1968)
- Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966)
- The Stolen Lake (1981)