![]() ![]() ![]() In 1945 she married Ronald George Brown, a journalist who was also working at UNIC. In 1941 her first children's story was broadcast on the BBC's Children's Hour.Īiken worked for the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in London between 19. Writing stories from an early age, she finished her first full-length novel when she was sixteen and had her first short story for adults accepted for publication when she was seventeen. Together with her brother John and her sister Jane, Joan Aiken wrote Conrad Aiken Remembered (1989), a short appreciation of their father.Īiken was taught at home by her mother until the age of twelve and from 1936 to 1940 at Wychwood School for girls in Oxford. Conrad Aiken went on to marry twice more. Jessie and Conrad's marriage was dissolved in 1929, and Jessie married the English writer Martin Armstrong in 1930. Their mother, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald (1889–1970), was a Master's graduate from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her older brother was the writer John Aiken (1913–1990), and her older sister was the writer Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009). Her father was the American Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Conrad Aiken (1889–1973). Aiken was born in Mermaid Street in Rye, Sussex, on 4 September 1924. ![]()
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