Susan Hill

English editor, music journalist and writer (born November 9 1950; died May 18 2004). She was a music journalist for Melody Maker in the 1970s. Hill wrote the book 'Breaking Glass', based on the screenplay to the film. She also worked for Granada Publishing, and then became an editor at Hutchinson in 1979. She transferred, in 1985, to Sidgwick & Jackson, which was later subsumed into the Macmillan. She later became a ghost writer . Born Carmel Vermilion O'Leary, Susan Hill was the name she took after being adopted.