Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian author of ten books spanning fiction and non-fiction.
His notable works include the memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and his third novel, The Book of Negroes (2007), which garnered widespread international attention.
Hill won a National Magazine Award in 2005 for his essay "Is Africa's Pain Black America's Burden?" His 2013 non-fiction work Blood: The Stuff of Life became the basis for the Massey Lectures.
His fourth novel, The Illegal (2015), is being adapted for television.
Hill currently teaches creative writing at the University of Guelph.
