Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill (born January 24, 1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist.[1] He is best known for his 2013 Massey Lectures Blood: The Stuff of Life, his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada.[2] Hill was born in Newmarket, Ontario.
Hill served as chair of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[3]
References
- ↑ Lawrence Hill on the power of blood. Maclean's (September 14, 2013). Retrieved 2015-01-13.
- ↑ Lawrence Hill dives full bore into the subject of blood. The Globe and Mail (October 4, 2013). Retrieved 2015-01-13.
- ↑ Lawrence Hill to chair Giller Prize jury. The Globe and Mail (January 19, 2016). Retrieved 2016-12-05.