When will the sound of footsteps by susan hill be published
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Hill, Susan (Elizabeth) 1942-
PERSONAL: Born February 5, 1942, in Scarborough, England; daughter of R. H. and Doris Hill; married Stanley W. Wells (a Shakespearean scholar), April 23, 1975; children: Jessica, Imogen (deceased), Clemency. Education: King's College, London, B.A. (with honors), 1963. Religion: Anglican. Hobbies and other interests: Walking in the English countryside, friends, reading, broadcasting.
ADDRESSES: Home—Midsummer Cottage, Church Lane, Beckley, Oxford OX3 9UT, England. Agent—Vivien Green, Sheil Land, 43 Doughty St., London WC1N 2LF, England. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Novelist, playwright, and critic, 1960—. Coventry Evening Telegraph, Coventry, England, literary critic, 1963-68; Daily Telegraph, London, England, monthly columnist, 1977—. Fellow of King's College, London, 1978. Presenter, Bookshelf, Radio 4, 1986-87.
AWARDS, HONORS: Somerset Maugham Award, 1971, for I'm the King of the Castle; Whitbread Literary Award for fiction, 1972, for The Bird of Night; John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, 1972, for The Alba On 5th February 1942, against the backdrop of a cold winter’s day and the ongoing World War II, Susan Hill was born in the seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. She attended Scarborough Convent Grammar School before moving to Coventry, where she completed her A Levels. From there Susan moved to London to attend King’s College London, a well-respected institution that has produced a number of distinguished names in literature – John Keats, Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf, to name but a few. Though she enjoyed the mix of culture that life in London offered, Hill felt, by her own admission, ‘like a fish out of water’ while at university and ‘shrank from much student life’. She graduated in 1963 with a degree in English. Born February 05, 1942 Twitter susanhillwriter Genre Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Children's Books edit data•
Hill, Susan
Her literary career began in 1961 during her first year as a student, when Hutchinson & Co. published The Enclosure, a novel she had written when she was just 15. Two years later Hutchinson published her second novel, Do Me a Favour. Susan describes her first two published novels as ‘both very bad books’ but appreciates the virtue t •
Susan Hill
Susan Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1942. Her hometown was later referred to in her novel A Change for the Better (1969) and some short stories especially "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 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, ThSusan Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1942. Her hometown was later referred to in her novel A Change for the B
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