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Top 10 facts about Lawrence hill
Lawrence Hill was born on the 24th of January in Newmarket Ontario. He is a novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His parents Daniel and Donna Hill were activists and co-founded The Ontario Black History Society with Wilson O.
Brooks and other friends. Donna and Daniel&#;s work greatly influenced their children’s lives and professions since Dan, Lawrence and Karen became writers.
Lawrence Hills&#; book The Book of Negroes which he published in novel gained him fame since that was inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War.
He also dabbles in non-fiction and fictional works. Here are 10 facts about Lawrence Hill:
1. He was a Teacher
Lawrence worked as a teacher while he was still pursuing his Master of Arts in writing at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland.
He taught undergraduate fiction writing until he completed the program and returned to Canada. He continued to teach and mentor creative writers in several adult education programs.
Among these include The Becoming Ground pr
Hill is the author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction, including his most recent novel, Beatrice and Croc Harry (HarperCollins Canada, ). 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, ) — 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 by House of Anansi Press. Hill drew from the book to deliver the Massey Lectures across Canada.
In , Hill published the essay Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning (University of Alberta Press).
His fourth novel, The Illegal, was published by HarperCollins Canada in an
Personal
Lawrence Hill is the son of American immigrants — a Black father and a white mother — who came to Canada the day after they married in in Washington, D.C. On his father’s side, Hill’s grandfather and great grandfather were ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother came from a Republican family in Oak Park, Illinois, graduated from Oberlin College and went on to become a civil rights activist in D.C. Growing up in the predominantly white suburb of Don Mills, Ontario in the sixties, Hill was greatly influenced by his parents’ work in the human rights movement. Much of Hill’s writing touches on issues of identity and belonging.
Hill’s first passion was running, and as a boy he dreamed of winning an Olympic gold medal in the 5, meters. But despite years of intense training and thousands of kilometers, he never managed to run quite fast enough. As a teenager, he consoled himself by deciding to become a writer instead, and at 14 he wrote his first story on his mother’s L.C. Smith typewriter. It was a bad story, and a good beginning.
Formerly a reporter with The Globe and Mail and parliamentary correspondent for The Winnipeg Free Press, Hill speaks
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