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Completing a recent questionnaire about motivation and children's writers convinced Joan Aiken that she writes children's fiction for pleasure and because it is a discipline. She has written about twenty books, both children's fiction and adult thrillers. In 1969 she won the Guardian children's fiction award and was a runner up for the Carnegie Medal. At present she is working on several projects including a full length story and a television series for very young children. She has two children and lives in Sussex.
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Aiken, J. A thread of mystery. Child Lit Educ 1, 30–47 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01139450
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01139450