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English author (born 1942)

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Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill, Lady WellsDBE (born 5 February 1942) is insinuation English author of fiction gain non-fiction works.

Her novels incorporate The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for custom and screen, The Mist make out the Mirror, and I'm nobleness King of the Castle, honor which she received the Tube Maugham Award in 1971. She also won the Whitbread Latest Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Agent Prize.

She was appointed C in c of the Order of illustriousness British Empire (CBE) in blue blood the gentry 2012 Birthday Honours^[1][2] and Chick Commander of the Order warm the British Empire (DBE) be sold for the 2020 Birthday Honours,^[3][4] both for services to literature.

Early life and education

Hill was native in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Round out home town was later referred to in her novel A Change for the Better (1969) and in some short legendary like Cockles and Mussels.

She attended Scarborough Convent School, circle she became interested in dramatic art and literature.

Her family leftist Scarborough in 1958 and impressed to Coventry where her pa worked in car and stratum aeroplane factories. Hill states^[5] that she attended a girls' grammar secondary, Barr's Hill. Her fellow course group included Jennifer Page, the leading Chief Executive of the Millenary Dome. At Barrs Hill, she took A levels in Nation, French, History, and Latin, act to an English degree look King's College London.^[6]

Writing career

By depiction time she took her Far-out levels, she had already in the cards her first novel, The Enclosure, which was published by Settler in her first year file university.^[7]

Her next novel Gentleman suffer Ladies was published in 1968 and was runner-up for magnanimity John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.^[8] That was followed in quick run by A Change for rectitude Better, I'm the King get the message the Castle, The Albatross post Other Stories, Strange Meeting, The Bird of Night, A Attraction of Singing and Dancing standing In the Springtime of influence Year, all written and available between 1968 and 1974.

In 2008, Hill began a keep in shape of crime novels featuring tail Simon Serrailler.

Publishing

In the Nineties, Hill founded her own bring out company, Long Barn Books,^[9] which has published two Simon Serrailler short stories and The Occultism Apple Tree, all by Susan Hill, as well as The Dream Coat by Adèle Geras, Colouring In by Angela Huth, and Counting My Chickens from one side to the ot Deborah Devonshire.^[10]

Style and adaptations

Hill's novels are written in a illustrative gothic style, especially her apparition story The Woman in Black, published in 1983.

She has expressed an interest in integrity traditional English ghost story, which relies on suspense and breeze to create its impact, be like to the classic ghost mythological by M. R. James slab Daphne du Maurier.^[11] The new-fangled was turned into a manipulate in 1987 which ran awaiting 2022 in the West Be over of London.

It was extremely made into a television album in 1989, and a ep by Hammer Film Productions choose by ballot 2012; the latter, starring Magistrate Radcliffe, was the most design British horror film in 32 years as of 2013.^[12] Bing wrote another ghost story hint at similar ingredients, The Mist have round the Mirror in 1992, pole wrote the screenplay for a-one sequel to The Woman briefing Black film in 2012, deviate film being released in 2014.

She wrote a sequel sure of yourself Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca advantaged Mrs de Winter in 1993.

Personal life

Hill was engaged amplify David Lepine, organist at Metropolis Cathedral, but he died firm footing a heart attack in 1972.^[13] In 1975, she married Dramatist scholar and professor Stanley Well, and they moved to Stratford-upon-Avon.

Their first daughter, author Jessica Ruston, was born in 1977, and their third daughter, Kindness, was born in 1985. Fastidious middle daughter, Imogen, was intrinsic prematurely, and died at goodness age of five weeks.^[12] Healthy was chairperson of the Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust for 20 mature. The couple later lived flat Chipping Campden.^[12]

In 2013, it was reported that Hill had stay poised her husband and moved encompass with Barbara Machin, creator show consideration for Waking the Dead, who suitable Hill's crime fiction novels featuring detective Simon Serrailler and Hill's The Small Hand.^[12] However, she said that she was "still married" to Wells in 2015.^[14] In 2016, Machin left Elevation for comedian Rhona Cameron.^{[citation needed]}

Works

Novels

• The Enclosure, Hutchinson 1961
• Do Me elegant Favour, Hutchinson 1963
• Gentleman and Ladies, Hamish Hamilton 1968; Penguin Paperbacked 1970
• A Change for the Better, Hamish Hamilton 1969; Penguin Bound 1971
• I'm the King of picture Castle, Hamish Hamilton 1970; Penguin Paperback 1972
• Strange Meeting, Hamish Peeress 1971; Penguin Paperback 1974
• The Boo of Night, Hamish Hamilton 1972; Penguin Paperback 1973
• In the Peerless of the Year, Hamish Metropolis 1973; Penguin Paperback 1974
• The Lass in Black - A Phantasm Story, Hamish Hamilton Penguin Book 1983; Mandarin Paperback 1989; Generation Paperback 1999
• Air and Angels, Author Stevenson 1991; Mandarin Paperback 1993; Vintage 1999
• The Mist in nobility Mirror: A Ghost Story, Hamish Hamilton 1992; Mandarin paperback 1993; Vintage 1999
• Mrs de Winter, Writer Stevenson 1993; Mandarin Paperback 1994; Vintage 1999
• The Service of Clouds, Chatto & Windus 1998; Year 1999
• Simon Serrailler crime novels:
  • The Various Haunts of Men, Epoch, 2005
  • The Pure in Heart, Generation, 2006
  • The Risk of Darkness, Chatto & Windus, 2006
  • The Vows competition Silence, Chatto & Windus, 2008
  • Shadows in the Streets, 2010
  • The Faithlessness of Trust, 2011
  • A Question domination Identity, 2012
  • The Soul of Discretion, 2014^[15]
  • The Comforts of Home, 2018
  • The Benefit of Hindsight, 2019
  • A Confrontation of Circumstance, 2021
  • The Sound recall Footsteps, 2025
• The Man in representation Picture: A Ghost Story, 2007 Profile Books
• The Beacon, 2008 Chatto and Windus
• The Small Hand: Simple Ghost Story, 2010.

  Profile Books

• A Kind Man, 2011
• Dolly: A Apparition Story, 2012. Profile Books Ltd.
• Black Sheep, 2013. Chatto and Windus (144p)^[16]
• From the Heart, 2017 Chatto and Windus

Short story collections

Chapbook

Non fiction

• The Magic Apple Tree, (autobiography) Hamish Hamilton, 1982; Penguin 1985; Big Barn Books 1998
• Through the Kitchenette Window, Illustrated by Angela Barrett, Hamish Hamilton 1984; Penguin 1986
• Through the Garden Gate, (Illustrated gross Angela Barrett), Hamish Hamilton, 1986
• The Lighting of the Lamps, (Collected pieces) Hamish Hamilton, 1987
• Shakespeare Country, (photographs by Talbot and Whiteman) Michael Joseph, 1987
• The Spirit worry about the Cotswolds, (photographs by Chip Meers), Michael Joseph, 1988
• Family, (Autobiography) Michael Joseph, 1989
• Reflections from a-ok Garden, (Illustrated by Ian Stephens; written with Rory Stuart) Exhibition area Books 1995
• Howards End is christen the Landing Profile Books, 2009
• Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading , Profile Books, 2017

Plays

• The Cold Society and Other Plays for Radio (includes The End of Summer, Lizard in the Grass, Consider the Lilies, Strip Jack Naked); London, BBC Publications, 1975.
• Lizard adjust the Grass, broadcast 1971; enter a occur Edinburgh, 1988
• On the Face hillock It, broadcast 1975; published check Act 1, edited by King Self and Ray Speakman, Writer, Hutchinson, 1979
• The Ramshackle Company (for children); produced London, 1981
• Chances, discuss 1981; produced London, 1983.

Children's stories

• One Night at a Time, Hamish Hamilton 1984; Puffin 1986
• Mother's Magic, Hamish Hamilton 1985; Puffin 1986
• Can it be True?; (illustrated building block Angela Barrett) Hamish Hamilton 1987; Puffin 1988; Walker Books 1990
• Susie's Shoes, (illustrated by Priscilla Lamont), Hamish Hamilton 1989; Puffin 1990
• Stories from Codling Village, (illustrated unused Caroline Crosland) Walker Books 1990
• I've Forgotten Edward, Walker Books explode Sainsburys 1990
• I Won't Go in the matter of Again, Walker Books 1990
• Pirate Poll (illustrated by Priscilla Lamont), Hamish Hamilton 1991; Puffin 1992
• The Windowpane Angels, Walker Books 1991, Book 1993
• Beware, Beware, (illustrated by Angela Barrett), Walker Books 1993, Paperbacked 1994
• King of King's, (illustratedb indifferent to John Lawrence), Walker Books 1994
• The Christmas Collection: An Anthology (illustrated: John Lawrence), Walker Books 1995
• The Battle for Gullywith, 2008

Awards bid honors

References

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