![]() It is now ten months later, and the poor lass has lain in a coma after having been picked up by the whaler Sarah Casket. What you need is the main ingredient, the protein in the dish, and in Night Birds in Nantucket that is provided by the indomitable figure of Dido Twite.When we last saw Dido she'd been lost at sea somewhere off the northeast coast of England, presumed dead. ![]() Take a dash of Jules Verne, add essence of Charles Dickens, several pinches of Herman Melville and season with adventure. Writing a successful novel is sometimes a little like inventing a recipe for a special dish. In 1999, Aiken was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her services to children’s literature. ![]() For older readers, her books include the Edgar Award–winning Night Fall, and The Scream. Her other titles for younger readers include The Last Slice of Rainbow, The Kitchen Warriors, and Mice and Mendelson. It was during this time that she wrote her classic children’s novel The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962), which won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and was the first in a 12-book series. Before writing full-time, Aiken worked at the United Nations Information Centre as well as the magazine Argosy. ![]() She began writing at a young age, publishing her first short story when she was 17 years old. Her father, Conrad Aiken, was a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet. She wrote 92 novels, including 27 for adults, as well as plays, poems, and short stories. Joan Aiken (1924–2004) was an English writer best known for her children’s literature. ![]()
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