Biographie de Susan Hill
Susan Hill has won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize, and the Whitbread and the Somerset Maugham Awards, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novels include I'm the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting, The Bird of Night, A Bit of Singing and Dancing, In the Springtime of the Year, Air and Angels and The Service o f Clouds. She is the author of Mrs de Winter, the acclaimed sequel to Rebecca, and two ghost stories, The Woman in Black and The Mist in the Mirror.
Her most recent book is the much praised collection of short stories, The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read. Susan Hill has also written non-fiction, including the bestselling The Magic Apple Tree, and children's books, including Can It Be True?. The play based on The Woman in Black bas been running in the West End for more than fifteen years. Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at King's College, London.
She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, and they have two daughters. She lives in a Gloucestershire farmhouse from which she runs her own small publishing company, Long Barn Books.