Diana Wynne Jones

As a child, this author of 167 books was dyslexic, and so much so that her parents laughed when she told them she wanted to be a writer. Yet between the ages of 12 and 14, Ms. Jones filled twenty copy books with her first two epic sagas.

Born in London in 1934, she loved to read as did her two sisters. But without an ample supply of books, Diana was forced to write her own. Those early years taught her many important lessons, including how to finish writing a book. (That's a lesson many of today's potential writers still can't quite master.)

I recently picked up Ms. Jones' book titled: "Believing is Seeing." It contains seven stories of unusual circumstances. As Greenwill Books, the publisher, states on the book jacket, it contains, "seven doorways to bizarre, yet strangely familiar worlds." I'm looking forward to it.

Have you read any of Diana Wynne Jones' books? If so, would you share your favorites and your thoughts about them with us?