Susan Hill

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Susan Hill (born 5 February 1942) is an English writer of fiction and non-fiction books.

The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle are three of her books, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. In the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature, she was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Early life and education

Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. In her book A Change for the Better (1969) and in some short stories such as Cockles and Mussels, her home town was later referenced to.

She attended Scarborough Convent School, where she became interested in theatre and literature. In 1958, her family left Scarborough and moved to Coventry, where her father worked in car and aircraft factories. Hill claims she attended Barr's Hill, a girls' grammar school. Jennifer Page, the first Chief Executive of the Millennium Dome, was among her classmates. She received an English, French, History, and Latin at Barrs Hill before going on to an English degree at King's College London. By this time, she had already written her first book, The Enclosure, which had been published by Hutchinson in her first year at the university.

Gentleman and Ladies, her second book, was published in 1968 and she was runner-up for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. This was followed by A Change for the Better, I'm the King of the Castle, The Albatross and other tales, A Night of Sorrow, A Bit of Singing and Dancing, and In the Springtime of the Year.

Personal life

Hill was engaged to David Lepine, organist at Coventry Cathedral, but he died of a coronary in 1972. In 1975, she married Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells and the two of them migrated to Stratford upon Avon. Author Jessica Ruston was born in 1977, and their second daughter, Clemency, was born in 1985. Imogen, a middle girl, was born prematurely and died at the age of five weeks. Barbara Machin, the author of Waking The Dead, who adapted Hill's crime fiction books starring detective Simon Serrailler and Hill's The Small Hand, was reported missing her husband and moved in with her daughter in 2013. However, she said she was'still married' to Wells in 2015. Machin left Hill for comedian Rhona Cameron in 2016.

Hill founded Long Barn Books, which has released two Simon Serrailler short stories and The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill, as well as Adele Geras' book The Dream Coat, Coloring In by Angela Huth and Counting My Chickens by Deborah Devonshire.

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Awards

• 1971 Somerset Maugham Award I'm the King of the Castle
• 1972 Whitbread Novel Award The Bird of Night (which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize)
• 1972 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize The Albatross
• 1988 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Gold Award) (6–8 years category) Can It Be True?: A Christmas Story
• 2012 CBE
• 2020 DBE