Biografie:
Diana Wynne Jones wurde am 16. August 1934 in London geboren. Sie wuchs in Essex auf und lebt nun in Bristol. Sie ist mit einem pensionierten Englischprofessor der Universität von Bristol, verheiratet.
Sie interessierte sich schon immer für das Erzählen von phantastischen Geschichten, kam aber erst nachdem ihre Kinder älter geworden waren dazu, selbst Geschichten zu schreiben.
Sie hatte in Oxford studiert und dabei teilweise Veranstaltungen von J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis besucht.
Der Kinofilm „Das wandelnde Schloss“ von Miyazaki Hayao basiert auf ihrem Kinderbuch „Sophie im Schloss des Zauberers“.
Werkeverzeichnis: (Titel, Erscheinungsjahr und Verlag)
• Changeover - For adults ('70 Macmillan, 2004 Moondust)
• Wilkin's Tooth (USA: Witch's Business) ('73 Macmillan, '75, '84 Puffin)
• The Ogre Downstairs '74 Macmillan, '77 Puffin
• Eight Days of Luke '75 Macmillan, '77, '84 Puffin
• Cart and Cwidder '75 Macmillan, '78 Puffin , Mammoth ?
• Dogsbody '75 Macmillan
• Power of Three '76 Macmillan, US: '77 Greenwillow, '84 Tempo MagicQuest
• Drowned Ammet '77 Macmillan, '93 Mammoth
• Charmed Life '77 Macmillan, '79 Puffin
• Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? '78 Evans Brothers Ltd, '80 Magnet
• The Spellcoats '79 Macmillan
• The Magicians of Caprona '80 Macmillan, '83 Beaver
• The Four Grannies 80 Hamish Hamilton
• Time of the Ghost 81 Macmillan, 84 Beaver
• The Homeward Bounders 81 Macmillan, 83 Magnet
• Witch Week 82 Macmillan, 85 Magnet
• Archer's Goon 84 Methuen, 86 Magnet
• Fire & Hemlock 85
• Warlock at the Wheel 84 Macmillan, 89 Beaver (Warlock at the Wheel; The Plague of Peacocks, The Fluffy Pink Toadstool; Auntie Bea's Day Out; Carruthers; No One; Dragon Reserve, Home Eight; The Sage of Theare)
• The Skiver's Guide 84 Knight
• Howl's Moving Castle 86 Methuen, 88 Methuen Teens
• A Tale of Time City 87 Methuen, 89 Methuen Teens
• The Lives of Christopher Chant 88 Methuen, 89 Mammoth
• Chair Person 89 Hamish Hamilton
• Wild Robert 89 Methuen, 91 Mammoth
• Hidden Turnings (ed) 89 Methuen, 90 Mandarin Teens
• Castle in the Air 90 Methuen, 91 Mammoth
• Black Maria 91 Methuen, 92 Mammoth (USA: Aunt Maria)
• A Sudden Wild Magic 92 Morrow, 94 AvoNova
• The Crown of Dalemark 93 Mammoth
• Hexwood 93 Methuen
• Fantasy Stories (ed) 94 Kingfisher, 95 Kingfisher paperback
• Everard's Ride 95 New England SF Association (Everard's Ride; nad and Dan and Quaffy; The Shape of the Narrative in The Lord of the Rings; No One; Dragon Reserve, Home Eight; The Master; The Plague of Peacocks; The True State of Affairs)
• Stopping for a Spell (collection of Chairperson; The Four Grannies; Who Got Rid of Angus Flint?)
• The Tough Guide to Fantasyland 96 Vista
• Minor Arcana 96 Victor Gollancz 98 Vista (The Sage of Theare; The Master; The Girl Who Loved the Sun; Dragon Reserve, Home Eight; What the Cat Told Me; nad and Dan and Quaffy; The True State of Affairs)
• Deep Secret 97 Gollancz, 98 Vista
• The Dark Lord of Derkholm 98 Gollancz
• Puss in Boots 99 Scholastic
• Mixed Magics 00 HarperCollins
• Year of the Griffin 00 Gollancz
• The Merlin Conspiracy 03 Collins
• Unexpected Magics 04 Greenwillow
• Conrad's Fate 05 HarperCollins
• The Pinhoe Egg 06 HarperCollins
• The Game 07 Firebirds, 08 HarperCollins
(Reihen
• The Chrestomanci series:
Charmed Life, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Witch Week, The Magicians of Caprona, Mixed Magics, Stealer of Souls, Conrad's Fate, The Pinhoe Egg
• The Dalemark series:
The Spellcoats, Drowned Ammet, Cart and Cwidder, The Crown of Dalemark
• The Derkholm series:
Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin )
Kurzgeschichten
• Aunt Bea's Day Out - For younger readers
• Carol O'Neir's Hundredth Dream - A Chrestomanci story
• Carruthers - For younger readers
• Dragon Reserve, Home Eight
• Enna Hittims
• Everard's Ride
• The Fat Wizard
• The Fluffy Pink Toadstool - For younger readers
• The Girl Who Loved The Sun
• The Green Stone - For younger readers
• Little Dot - New for 2003 in Firebirds anthology
• The Master
• Mela Worms - For adult readers
• Nad and Dan and Quaffy
• No One - For younger readers
• The Plague of Peacocks - For younger readers
• The Sage of Theare - A Chrestomanci story
• Stealer of Souls - A Chrestomanci story
• The True State of Affairs
• Warlock at the Wheel - A Chrestomanci story
• What The Cat Told Me
• Little Dot
Anderes
• The Shape of the Narrative in The Lord of the Rings