Susan Hill

Susan Hill was born in Scarborough, a town that serves as the setting for several of her novels. She studied at the local Catholic girl’s school, and at the age of sixteen, she and her family moved to Coventry, a much larger city. During her teen years, she penned a novel titled The Enclosure, which was published the same year that she began studying at King’s College in London. Beginning in the late 1960s, Hill wrote a series of acclaimed novels, including I’m the King of the Castle (1970), The Bird of Night (1972) and Strange Meeting (1974). Hill’s numerous novels have addressed an impressive number of subjects, including war, crime, and childhood; however, her most popular novels are ghost stories or works of crime fiction. Her novella The Woman in Black (1983) was adapted into a famous stage play that has played in London’s West End for more than twenty years. Hill married the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells in 1975. She resides in the United Kingdom.