Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Reared—Toronto, Canada
• Education—B.A., Laval University (Quebec); M.A., Johns
Hopkins University (USA)
• Awards—Rogers Writers' Trust Prize; Commonwealth
Writers' Prize (both Canadian).
• Currently—lives in Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Lawrence Hill is the author of the novels, Someone Knows My Name (published as The Book of Negroes in Cabada), Any Known Blood and Some Great Thing and of the nonfiction work The Deserter's Tale (with Joshua Key). He lives in Ontario, Canada. (From the publisher.)
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Lawrence Hill is an award-winning Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel Someone Knows My Name (The Book of Negroes in Canada).
Hill, the son of social scientist and public servant Daniel G. Hill and social activist Donna Hill and the brother of singer-songwriter Dan Hill, grew up in the Don Mills neighbourhood of Toronto. He currently lives in Burlington, Ontario, with his wife and five children.
In 2007, Hill collaborated with former US-Army Soldier (now deserter) Joshua Key to write Key's account of the Iraq War. His book The Deserter's Tale, the story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq is the result of their interviews and meetings.
Someone Knows / Book of Negroes was longlisted for the Giller Prize and won the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the 2009 edition of Canada Reads.
Hill also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best essay for his work entitled "Is Africa's Pain Black America's Burden?", published in The Walrus. He also wrote the screenplay for Seeking Salvation, a documentary film about the Black church in Canada. Seeking Salvation won the American Wilbur Award for best national television documentary in 2005. (From Wikipedia.)