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Lawrence Hill (born January 24, 1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. [1] He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in ...
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Lawrence Hill is the author of ten books including the novels The Book of Negroes and The Illegal, and the non-fiction books Blood: the Stuff of Life, and Dear Sir, I intend to Burn your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning.
The Book of Negroes “The Book of Negroes is a masterpiece…” — The Globe and Mail “…the exclusive club that includes literature’s most memorable characters now has a remarkable new member.”
Hill is the author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction, including his most recent novel, Beatrice and Croc Harry (HarperCollins Canada, 2022). He has won numerous awards such as the National Magazine Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, as well as Canada Reads twice.
Jun 8, 2010 · Lawrence Hill, CM, novelist, journalist, educator, documentary writer (born 1957 in Newmarket, ON). Lawrence Hill is one of the most important contributors to Black culture in Canada, and the publication of his internationally acclaimed novel The Book of Negroes (2007) has placed him among Canada's most successful writers.
Nov 17, 2008 · Lawrence Hill's novel, Someone Knows My Name, is a wonderful novel, masterfully done, epic in its proportions and a scholarly masterpiece enabling the reader to see, to feel, to experience what slavery must have been like for so many on the planet.
Lawrence Hill has 36 books on Goodreads with 228871 ratings. Lawrence Hill’s most popular book is The Book of Negroes.
