Lawrence Hill
LAWRENCE HILL is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Book of Negroes , which was made into a six-part TV mini-series, and The Illegal , which won CBC's Canada Reads and was a #1 national bestseller. His previous novels Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood also became national bestsellers. Hill's non-fiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life , the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures, and Black Berry, Sweet Juice , a memoir about growing up black and white in...See more
LAWRENCE HILL is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Book of Negroes , which was made into a six-part TV mini-series, and The Illegal , which won CBC's Canada Reads and was a #1 national bestseller. His previous novels Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood also became national bestsellers. Hill's non-fiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life , the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures, and Black Berry, Sweet Juice , a memoir about growing up black and white in Canada. Lawrence Hill has volunteered with Crossroads International, the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, Book Clubs for Inmates and the Ontario Black History Society. A professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph, Lawrence Hill lives with his family in Hamilton, Ontario, and Woody Point, Newfoundland. See less
