Diana Wynne Jones
Mar. 26th, 2011 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI enjoyed her books very much. I was saddened to discover this morning that she has died.
I didn't realize she wrote Dogsbody (the star Sirius comes to earth in the body of a dog)--that was one of the earliest fantasy books I read but I didn't pay attention to authors then. I knew her mostly for the Chrestomanci books and for Howl's Moving Castle, which came along after I internalized the fact that the names on the covers sometimes predicted the quality of story inside. Apparently, she was also an atheist, which I only discovered today.
My sympathy to her friends and family.
I didn't realize she wrote Dogsbody (the star Sirius comes to earth in the body of a dog)--that was one of the earliest fantasy books I read but I didn't pay attention to authors then. I knew her mostly for the Chrestomanci books and for Howl's Moving Castle, which came along after I internalized the fact that the names on the covers sometimes predicted the quality of story inside. Apparently, she was also an atheist, which I only discovered today.
My sympathy to her friends and family.
