![]() ![]() She was encouraged to write by both her father and her stepfather, but it was the latter who provided the particular starting point. ![]() She had, after all, been brought up surrounded by conversations about the technique of crafting a short story, and what were the key ingredients of a good ghost story - both genres in which she came to excel. She moved on to become features editor for Argosy magazine, before joining J Walter Thompson, briefly, as a copywriter.īut, as the daughter of a writer - her father was the American poet Conrad Aiken - and the stepdaughter of another, the English novelist Martin Armstrong, she had also always been a writer, and the decision to give up going out to an office, in favour of becoming a fulltime writer, was something both she and her sister Jane Aiken Hodge took for granted. ![]() After Wychwood school, Oxford, she worked, initially, as a librarian for the UN Information Centre in London. Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex, and lived not far from there all her life. ![]()
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