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Lawrence Hill

Born

in Ontario, Canada

January 24, 1957

Website

http://www.lawrencehill.com

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Hill is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction. In 2005, he won his first literary honour: a National Magazine Award for the article “Is Africa’s Pain Black America’s Burden?” published in The Walrus. His first two novels were Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood, and his first non-fiction work to attract national attention was the memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. But it was his third novel, The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins Canada, 2007) — 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 September 2013 by House of Anansi ...more

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Beatrice and Croc Harry Educator's Guide

To accompany the publication of Beatrice and Croc Harry, HarperCollins hired the educator Alexiis Stephen to develop this Educator’s Guide.

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Lawrence Hill’s books

Average rating: 4.34 · 105,147 ratings · 8,893 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Book of Negroes 4.46 avg rating — 86,875 ratings — published 2007 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Illegal 3.78 avg rating — 12,132 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Any Known Blood 3.86 avg rating — 3,751 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Great Thing 3.60 avg rating — 826 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood: The Stuff of Life 3.59 avg rating — 684 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada 3.96 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beatrice and Croc Harry: A Novel 3.81 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series) by Lawrence Hill, Ted Bishop (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So What Are You, Anyway? 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Normal (Telegrams from Home, Vol. 2) by Lawrence Hill (Contributor), Amy Stuart (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Shaughnessy Bishop Stall (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

tags: humanity, people, relationships

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“You must learn to respect," Papa said.

But I do not respect her," I said.

Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

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“When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.”
― Lawrence Hill

tags: understanding-others

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Which book would you like to see as the selection for our Winter 2011 Group Reads category African American Literature?

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

37 votes 29.6%

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

30 votes 24.0%

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

17 votes 13.6%

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

10 votes 8.0%

Ain't No Sunshine by Leslie DuBois

7 votes 5.6%

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

7 votes 5.6%

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

6 votes 4.8%

The Kid by Sapphire

5 votes 4.0%

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

4 votes 3.2%

The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate

2 votes 1.6%

125 total votes

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