Susan Hill
Susan Hill was born in 1942, Susan Hill has written at least 53 books. Their most popular book is The Woman in Black with 169 saves with an average rating of 3.61⭐.
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Author Bio
Novelist, children's writer and playwright Susan (Elizabeth) Hill was born in Scarborough, England, on 5 February 1942.
She was educated at Scarborough Convent School and at grammar school in Coventry, before reading English at King's College, London, graduating in 1963 and becoming a Fellow in 1978.
Her first novel, The Enclosure, was published in 1961 when she was still a student. She worked as a freelance journalist between 1963 and 1968, publishing her third novel, Gentleman and Ladies, in 1968. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972 and was a presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Bookshelf' from 1986 to 1987. In 1996 she started her own publishing company, Long Barn Books, editing and publishing a quarterly literary journal, Books and Company, in 1998.
She won a Somerset Maugham Award for I'm the King of the Castle (1970); the Whitbread Novel Award for The Bird of Night (1972); and the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Albatross (1971), a collection of short stories.
Since then she has written many other novels including Strange Meeting (1971), set during the First World War; In the Springtime of the Year (1974); The Woman in Black (1983); Air and Angels (1991); The Mist in the Mirror (1992); The Service of Clouds (1998); and Mrs de Winter (1999), a sequel to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. The Woman in Black (1983), a Victorian ghost story, was successfully adapted for stage and television and is one of Susan Hill's most commercial successes. Her recent novels include the series of Simon Serrailler crime novels and various further ghost stories.
Susan Hill is also the author of two volumes of memoir, The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year (1982), about her life in rural Oxfordshire during the 1970s, and Family (1989), in which she writes about her early life in Scarborough.
Her books for children include The Glass Angels (1991); Beware, Beware (1993); King of Kings (1993) and The Battle for Gullywith (2008). She has also written radio plays, a number of books of non-fiction and has edited several anthologies of short stories including two volumes of The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, published in 1991 and 1997.
Her latest collection of short stories is Farthing House: And Other Stories (2006) and her latest novel is Black Sheep (2013).
Susan Hill is married to the Shakespeare scholar Professor Stanley Wells. She moved back to the sea, but this time to North Norfolk, in 2013.
https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/susan-hill
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8 primary books11 released booksAuthored 0% of series
Simon Serrailler
Simon Serrailler is a 11-book series with 8 primary works first released in 2004 with contributions by Susan Hill.
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The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1947 with contributions by Susan Hill and Martyn Waites.
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1 primary book13 released booksAuthored 0% of series
Marley the Dog (I Can Read! series)
Marley the Dog (I Can Read! series) is a 13-book series with 1 primary work first released in 2010 with contributions by John Grogan, Susan Hill, and Richard Cowdrey.
