Hill Susan (EN)
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Хилл Сьюзен
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Пол: женский
Язык страницы автора: Английский
Дата рождения:
5 February 1942
Место рождения:
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
ID автора:
83855
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Susan Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Her home town was later referred to in her novel A Change for the Better (1969) and in some short stories like Cockles and Mussels.
She attended Scarborough Convent School, where she became interested in theatre and literature. Her family left Scarborough in 1958 and moved to Coventry where her father worked in car and aircraft factories. Hill states[3] 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, The Enclosure, which was published by Hutchinson in her first year at the university. The novel was criticised by The Daily Mail for its sexual content, with the suggestion that writing in this style was unsuitable for a "schoolgirl".
Her next novel Gentleman and Ladies was published in 1968. 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.
She 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 they moved to Stratford upon Avon. Their first daughter, author Jessica Ruston, was born in 1977, and their second daughter, Clemency, was born in 1985. A middle daughter, Imogen, was born prematurely, and died at the age of four weeks. In 2013 it was reported that she had left her husband and moved in with Barbara Machin, creator of Waking The Dead, who is adapting Hill’s crime fiction series Serrailler for ITV, and previously adapted another of Susan's works The Small Hand. However, she said that she was 'still married' to Wells in 2015.
Hill has recently founded her own publishing company, Long Barn Books, which has published one work of fiction.
Написанные книги
| Заголовок | Оценка | Добавлена | Жанры | Серии | Язык | Издана | Написана | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story |
10.0 (1) | 0 | 21 апреля 2014 03:57 | Ужасы и мистика | 18 | EN | 2008 | ||
The Risk of Darkness |
0 (0) | 0 | 21 апреля 2014 03:43 | Криминальные детективы, Триллеры | 74 | Simon Serrailler #0003 | EN | 2007 | |
The Small Hand: A Ghost Story |
0 (0) | 0 | 21 апреля 2014 04:05 | Ужасы и мистика | 22 | EN | 2010 | ||
Vows of Silence |
0 (0) | 0 | 21 апреля 2014 03:50 | Криминальные детективы, Триллеры | 66 | Simon Serrailler #0004 | EN | 2009 |