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March 27, 2011 10:03 pm PDT
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RIP, Diana Wynne Jones
Christopher Priest's obit for much-loved fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones in today's Guardian is a lovely and loving look at a wonderful person who will be much missed: Like many good writers, Diana Wynne Jones, who has died aged 76 of cancer, worked for long years in relative obscurity, in her case sustained as a children's fantasy author by a modestly sized but devoted young readership. That obscurity provided the freedom to develop her own voice without the distractions of having to build on perceived success. By the time real success found her, in Jones's case almost by chance, she was a mature writer with a solid and varied body of work that was ready to be appreciated by a much bigger new audience. Her intelligent and beautifully written fantasies are of seminal importance for their bridging of the gap between "traditional" children's fantasy, as written by CS Lewis or E Nesbit, and the more politically and socially aware children's literature of the modern period, where authors such as Jacqueline Wilson or Melvyn Burgess explicitly confront problems of divorce, drugs and delinquency. Diana Wynne Jones obituary (Thanks, Flying_Monkey, via Submitterator)...
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