Joan Delano Aiken was an author who is best known for her supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels.In the 1950s, Aiken worked as an editor for the magazine Argosy. Her first book, the collection "All You Ever Wanted and Other Stories," was published in 1953.Aiken won several awards for her work, including the 1968 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for "The Whispering Mountain," and the 1972 Edgar Allen Poe Award for "Night Fall.Aiken died in 2004.