with lung cancer in the early summer of 2009. She underwent surgery in July and reported to friends that the procedure had been successful. However, in June 2010 she announced that she would be discontinuing chemotherapy because it only made her feel ill. In mid-2010 she was halfway through a new book with plans for another to follow. She died on 26 March 2011 from the disease. She was surrounded by her husband, three sons, and five grandchildren as she was cremated at Canford Cemetery. The story in progress when she became too ill to write, The Islands of Chaldea, was completed by her sister Ursula Jones in 2014. Interviewed by The Guardian in June 2013 after she finished the Chaldea story, Ursula Jones said that "other things were coming to light ... She left behind a mass of stuff." In 2013 another book was published posthumously, Vile Visitors. Works Selected awards and honours Jones has been nominated for and also won multiple awards for her various works. Explanatory notes References Citations Additional works cited Formerly The Official Diana Wynne Jones Fansite. Further reading External links The Diana Wynne Jones fansite—fan-operated but approved by Jones who also participated "Diana Wynne Jones", entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Diana Wynne Jones at SciFan "Wrestling with an Angel" (2003), based on an interview with BBC Bristol 1934 births 2011 deaths 20th-century British short story writers 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford British women short story writers British parodists Parody novelists British writers of young adult literature Deaths from lung cancer in England English atheists English children's writers English fantasy writers English women novelists Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners People educated at Friends School Saffron Walden People from Thaxted Women science fiction and fantasy writers Women writers of young adult literature World Fantasy Award-winning writers