"He spread his arms and language rolled from him, sonorous, magnificent, and rhythmic. After a brief period in London, in 1957 the couple returned to Oxford, where they stayed until moving to Bristol in 1976. In the same year she married John Burrow, a prominent scholar of medieval literature, with whom she had three sons, Richard, Michael and Colin. There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor Isobel Armstrong, the literary critic) and Ursula (later an actress and a children's writer) spent a childhood left chiefly to their own devices.Īfter attending Friends' School, Saffron Walden, she studied English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. In 1943 her family finally settled in Thaxted, Essex, where her parents worked running an educational conference centre. When war was announced, shortly after her fifth birthday, she was evacuated to Pontarddulais in Wales where her grandfather was a minister at a chapel, she did not live long in Wales due to a family dispute, she thereafter moved several times, including periods in the Lake District, in York, and back in London. Jones was born in London, the daughter of Marjorie (née Jackson) and Richard Aneurin Jones, both of whom were teachers. She was twice a finalist for the Hugo Award, nominated fourteen times for the Locus Award, seven times for the Mythopoeic Award (which she won twice), twice for a British Fantasy Award (won in 1999), and twice for a World Fantasy Award, which she won in 2007. Her work has been nominated for several awards. Rowling and Neil Gaiman, with Gaiman describing her as "quite simply the best writer for children of her generation". Jones has been cited as an inspiration and muse for several fantasy and science fiction authors including Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Penelope Lively, Robin McKinley, Dina Rabinovitch, Megan Whalen Turner, J.K.
Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series, the three Moving Castle novels, Dark Lord of Derkholm, and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
Jones's work often explores themes of time travel and parallel or multiple universes. Although usually described as fantasy, some of her work also incorporates science fiction themes and elements of realism. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer.
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