Susan hill biography
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Susan Hill
Novelist Susan Hill (English, ) published her first novel whilst studying at King’s.
Susan was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire during World War II. Although the family moved to Coventry when Susan was 16, many of her novels and short stories still feature her hometown by the sea.
Susan started at King’s in and published The Enclosure whilst in her first year here. She has gone on to write many best-selling novels including I’m the King of the Castle, Mist in the Mirror, Strange Meeting and The Risk of Darkness. Her ghost story The Woman in Black was adapted as a stage-play and is now the second longest-running play in the West End. In , it was made into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Susan founded the independent publishing house, Long Barn Books, in She has been a reviewer for many newspapers and journals and she is a regular contributor to The Spectator.
Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys an
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Susan Hill
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in Scarborough, The United KingdomFebruary 05,
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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Children's Books
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Susan Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire in Her hometown was later referred to in her novel A Change for the Better () and some short stories especially "Cockles and Mussels".
She attended Scarborough Convent School, where she became interested in theatre and literature. Her family left Scarborough in and moved to Coventry where her father worked in car and aircraft factories. Hill states that she attended a girls’ grammar school, Barr's Hill. Her fellow pupils included Jennifer Page, the first Chief Executive of the Millennium Dome. At Barrs Hill she took A levels in English, French, History and Latin, proceeding to an English degree at King's College London. By this time she had already written her first novel, ThSusan Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorks
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Susan Hill
English author (born )
For the abortion rights activist, see Susan Hill (activist). For the medical forskare, see Sue Hill.
Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill, Lady WellsDBE (born 5 February ) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for scen and screen, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Birthday Honours[1][2] and Dame Commander of the beställning of the British Empire (DBE) in the Birthday Honours,[3][4] both for services to literature.
Early life and education
[edit]Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Her home town was later referred to in her novel A Change for the Better (