Lawrence hill biography
Lawrence hill biography
Lawrence hill author.
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.
His first two novels were Some Great Thingand Any Known Blood, and his first non-fiction work to attract national attention was the memoirBlack Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. But it was his third novel, The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins Canada, 2007) — published in some countries as Someone Knows My Name and in French as Aminata — that attracted widespread attention in Canada and other countries.
Lawrence Hill’s non-fiction book, Blood: The Stuff of Life was published in 2013 by House of Anansi Press. Hill drew from the book to deliver the 2013 Massey Lectures across Canada.