Author: Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist who writes about identity and belonging. He is the author of nine books, including the award-winning novel The Book of Negroes and the non-fiction works Blood: The Stuff of Life (which formed the basis of his 2013 Massey Lectures) and Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning. He has co-written a six-part television miniseries based on The Book of Negroes, which appeared in 2015 on CBC TV and BET. He is currently completing a new novel.

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Blood

April 29, 2015October 16, 2019 - by Lawrence Hill

“We give our blood without payment or recognition. We give because it makes us human”

Photograph courtesy of the CBC

January/February 2015 / Television

Adaptation

December 15, 2014October 23, 2019 - by Lawrence Hill

Rewriting The Book of Negroes for the small screen

Illustration by Selena Wong

Fiction / January/February 2011

Meet You at the Door

January 12, 2011October 16, 2019 - by Lawrence Hill

This happened back in the dinosaur days, in the town of Gull Lake, population 800. The gulls had all died, and if ever there had been a lake it had …

April 2005 / Sports

Marathon Man

April 12, 2005October 17, 2019 - by Lawrence Hill

At age 74, Ed Whitlock is one of the fastest men on earth

Feature / February 2005

Is Africa’s Pain Black America’s Burden?

February 12, 2005July 28, 2016 - by Lawrence Hill

An essay