Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill, Lady Wells was born on 5 February 1942 and is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works.
12 Facts About Susan Hill
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Susan Hill's novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for stage and screen, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971.
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Susan Hill won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Susan Hill was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Birthday Honours, both for services to literature.
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Susan Hill attended Scarborough Convent School, where she became interested in theatre and literature.
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Susan Hill's family left Scarborough in 1958 and moved to Coventry where her father worked in car and aircraft factories.
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At Barrs Susan Hill, she took A levels in English, French, History, and Latin, proceeding to an English degree at King's College London.
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In 2008, Susan Hill began a series of crime novels featuring detective Simon Serrailler.
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Susan Hill's novels are written in a descriptive gothic style, especially her ghost story The Woman in Black, published in 1983.
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Susan Hill wrote another ghost story with similar ingredients, The Mist in the Mirror in 1992, and wrote the screenplay for a sequel to The Woman in Black film in 2012, that film being released in 2014.
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Susan Hill wrote a sequel to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca entitled Mrs de Winter in 1993.
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Susan Hill was engaged to David Lepine, organist at Coventry Cathedral, but he died of a heart attack in 1972.