In 1969 The Whispering Mountain won the Guardian Children's Book Award, and in 1972, Night Fall won America's Edgar Allen Poe Award for juvenile mystery. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and was made into a successful film in 1988. Walter Thompson Advertising Firm, she returned and finished the book in 1963. After working for five years as a copy editor at Argosy Magazine, and at the J. While writing The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, begun in 1952, her husband became ill and died of lung cancer in 1955. In 1953 a collection of short fiction called All You've Ever Wanted and Other Stories was published. She worked for the UN until 1949, all the while continuing to write stories. Thomas's Hospital, and in 1943 she moved to the reference department of the London office of the United Nations, where she collected information about resistance movements. Her work first appeared in 1941 when the British Broadcasting Corporation, where she worked as a librarian, broadcast some of her short stories on their Children's Hour program. She then attended Wychwood School, a boarding school in Oxford. She was raised in a rural area and home schooled by her mother until the age 12. Joan Delano Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex, England, on September 4, 1924, the daughter of the Pulitzer Prize winner, writer Conrad Aiken.
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