Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He was born in 1957 in Newmarket, Ontario. He is known for his novels *The Book of Negroes* and *The Illegal*. He has also written the memoir *Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada*. Hill's work has been praised for its exploration of race, identity, and belonging. He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the NAACP Image Award.

Here are some additional details about Hill's life and work:

* He attended the University of Toronto Schools and Laval University, where he earned a BA in economics.
* He moved to the United States to earn an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University.
* He worked as a journalist for The Globe and Mail and the Winnipeg Free Press.
* He is married and has four children.
* He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.