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.
Her family left Scarborough in 1958 and moved to Coventry where her father worked in car and aircraft factories.
[8] This was followed in quick succession by A Change for the Better, I'm the King of the Castle, The Albatross and Other Stories, Strange Meeting, The Bird of Night, A Bit of Singing and Dancing and In the Springtime of the Year, all written and published between 1968 and 1974.
In the 1990s, Hill founded her own publishing company, Long Barn Books,[9] which has published two Simon Serrailler short stories and The Magic Apple Tree, all by Susan Hill, as well as The Dream Coat by Adèle Geras, Colouring In by Angela Huth, and Counting My Chickens by Deborah Devonshire.
[10] Hill's novels are written in a descriptive gothic style, especially her ghost story The Woman in Black, published in 1983.