Susan Hill


Susan Hill

BornSusan Elizabeth Hill
(1942-02-05) 5 February 1942
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
OccupationAuthor
NationalityBritish
Alma materKing's College London
GenreFiction, non-fiction
Notable worksThe Woman in Black
The Mist in the Mirror
I'm the King of the Castle
SpouseStanley Wells
(m. 1975; sep. 2011)
PartnerBarbara Machin (2013–2016)
Children3

Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill, Lady Wells DBE (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her 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. She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 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 2012 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours, both for services to literature.