Diana Wynne Jones - Moving Castles, Witches and Dark Ages
Diana Wynne Jones 1934 - 2011
Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl's Moving Castle and the Chrestomanci series, died of cancer at the age of 76 in March 2011. She was one of Britain's most beloved children's book author, and one of the most prolific fantasy writers in the world. Diana Wynne Jones grew up with particularly unloving parents and started to write stories for her younger sisters when her father withheld a series of children's books from them. She studied at Oxford where, among others, C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien...