Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill (born January 24, 1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. 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 Canada''. ''The Book of Negroes'' was adapted for a TV mini-series produced in 2015. He was selected in 2013 for the
Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book ''Blood: The Stuff of Life,'' published that year. His ten books include other non-fiction and fictional works, and some have been translated into other languages and published in numerous other countries.
Hill was born in
Newmarket,
Ontario, to an American couple who had immigrated to
Toronto from
Washington, D.C., in 1953. His father was black and his mother was white. Hill served as chair of the jury for the 2016
Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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