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Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative 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 writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Fall. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. September 1924 – 4. January 2004
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Joan Aiken Quotes

“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

Joan Aiken

Source: The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories

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