Susan Hill

1942–

English novelist and short-story writer, born in Scarborough. She wrote her first novel, The Enclosure, while still at school; it was published in 1961 during her first year at King’s College London. Books from 1968 to 1974 included I’m the King of the Castle, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and Strange Meeting. Her ghost story The Woman in Black (1983) became a long-running West End play and a film. She later wrote the Simon Serrailler novels and became a dame in 2020. The Bird of Night, which won the Whitbread Novel Award, was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Susan Hill’s life

Works

• The Bird of Night (1972)

Prizes

• The Bird of Night — The Booker Prize 1972: Shortlist