{"id":709,"date":"2011-04-04T18:35:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T22:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=709"},"modified":"2011-04-04T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T22:35:52","slug":"diana-wynne-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2011\/04\/04\/diana-wynne-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Wynne Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2011\/04\/howlhb2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2011\/04\/howlhb2-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2011\/04\/howlhb2-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2011\/04\/howlhb2.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDiana Wynne Jones died last week, and, rereading her novels, I&#8217;m reminded that she is one of the great under-rated authors of children&#8217;s books.  Try <em>Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle<\/em> if you are new to her work.  The <em>New York Times<\/em> captures the power of her writing and reminds us how her clever, curious protagonists navigate worlds of hyperdysfunctionality.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/29\/books\/diana-wynne-jones-childrens-fantasy-author-dies-at-76.html?scp=1&#038;sq=diana%20wynne%20jones&#038;st=cse<br \/>\nDiana Wynne Jones has a moving account of her childhood and of what led her to become a writer on her website.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk\/autobiog.htm<br \/>\nShe tells us: &#8220;I get unhappy if I don\u2019t write. Each book is an experiment, an attempt to write the ideal book, the book my children would like, the book I didn\u2019t have as a child myself. I have still not, after twenty-odd books, written that book. But I keep trying. Nor do I manage to live a quiet life. I keep undertaking things, like visiting schools and teaching courses as a writer, or learning the cello, or doing amateur theatricals, or rashly agreeing to do all the cooking for Richard\u2019s wedding in 1984. Every one of those things has led to comic disasters-except the wedding: that was perfect.&#8221;  And so were her books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Wynne Jones died last week, and, rereading her novels, I&#8217;m reminded that she is one of the great under-rated authors of children&#8217;s books. Try Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle if you are new to her work. The New York Times captures the power of her writing and reminds us how her clever, curious protagonists navigate worlds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}