She rarely won awards, and her books slipped in and out of print, especially in the US. And Jones’s fans are ready and waiting for her moment, 33 years after Howl’s Moving Castle first came out.īack in 1986, Diana Wynne Jones was a respected children’s author, but she was also, as Farah Mendlesohn wrote for Tor in 2011, slightly under the radar. The Folio Society has released a new edition of her 1986 novel Howl’s Moving Castle, lavished with the kind of deluxe treatment - full-page, full-color illustrations printed endpapers an accompanying slipcase - that is generally reserved for books that have a sizable cult following. Diana Wynne Jones, the children’s fantasy author who is much beloved among those who know her but has never quite become a household name, took another step toward becoming canonical this month.
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