Susan Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction, whose novels include The Woman in Black, a gothic horror story adapted for both stage and screen. Her other novels include The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle, which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. The Bird of Night took the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Hill was made a CBE in 2012 and a Dame in 2020, both for services to literature.
