THE WOMAN IN BLACK
by Stephen Mallatratt and Susan Hill
Susan Hill
Author
Susan Hill was educated at grammar schools in Scarborough and Coventry and studied at King’s College, London, of which she is an Honorary Fellow. Her works include
I’m the King of the Castle (Somerset Maugham Prize),
Strange Meeting, The Bird of Night (Whitbread Award),
The Albatross (John Llewellyn Rhys Prize),
In the Springtime of the Year, the ghost stories
The Woman in Black,
The Mist in the Mirror, The Small Hand, and
Dolly. She has written seven books to date in her
DCS Simon Serrailler crime series. She has also written for children, and two autobiographical books,
The Magic Apple Tree, Family and
Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home. She has written three collections of short stories, most recently
The Boy who Taught the Beekeeper to Read.
She is married to the distinguished Shakespeare scholar Professor Stanley Wells and has two daughters. Susan Hill was awarded a
CBE for Services to Literature in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours, 2012.
See Susan Hill’s author website
www.susan-hill.com