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Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) [1] was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults .
The scholar of folklore Dimitra Fimi suggests a third group of Tolkien-influenced authors, the British fantasists Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, and Diana Wynne Jones. In her view, all were, like Tolkien, prompted to fantasy by war; all three attended Tolkien's lectures at the University of Oxford ; and all admitted being influenced by "British ...
The Dark Lord of Derkholm, simply Dark Lord of Derkholm in the United States, is a fantasy novel by the British author Diana Wynne Jones, published autumn 1998 in both the U.K. and the U.S. [a] It won the 1999 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature.
Tolkien's Middle-earth led to mythopoeic fantasy in the 1970s, from authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Robin McKinley. [12] Another influential writer of this period was Diana Wynne Jones , who wrote both medievalist and realist fantasies.
"A Sudden Wild Mage: A Rough Guide to Diana Wynne Jones" (1997) by David V. Barrett, in Interzone, #117 March 1997 (1997) "Diana Wynne Jones" (2006) by Leonard S. Marcus, in The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy (2006) "An Excerpt from a Conversation with Diana Wynne Jones" by Catherine Butler, in Vector 268 (2011)
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is a nonfiction book by the British author Diana Wynne Jones that humorously examines the common tropes of a broad swathe of fantasy fiction. The U.S. Library of Congress calls it a dictionary. [a] However, it may be called a fictional or parodic tourist guidebook. It was first published by Vista Books (London) in ...
In Diana Wynne Jones' Charmed Life (1977), two orphaned children receive magical education while living in a castle. The setting is a world resembling early 1900s Britain, where magic is commonplace. [67] "Wynne Jones has been publishing for more than 30 years, and young readers have noted parallels between her books and Rowling's creations.
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011), author of the Chrestomanci series and Howl's Moving Castle; Howard Andrew Jones, author of The Chronicles of Hanuvar series, The Chronicles of Sword and Sand series and the Ring-Sworn trilogy; Ivan Jones, author of The Ghost Hunter series; J. V. Jones (born 1963), author of Sword of Shadows series