Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill is the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Negroes, which won CBC's Canada Reads in 2009 and was adapted into a six-part miniseries for CBC-TV. His most recent novel,The Illegal,won Canada Readsin 2016 and was defended by Olympian Clara Hughes. His previous novels includeSome Great Thing and Any Known Blood. He is also the author of Black Berry, Sweet Juice, a memoir about growing up black and white in Canada, and Blood: The Stuff of Life, a series of essays from his 2013 Massey Lectures. Hill volunteers with Canadian Crossroads International, the Black Loyalist Heritage Society and Project Bookmark Canada. He lives in Hamilton, Ont.and Woody Point, NL.

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Books by Lawrence Hill

Interviews with Lawrence Hill

The Next Chapter15:28Lawrence Hill on "The Illegal"

Lawrence Hill talks about his new novel, which is in the running for Canada Reads 2016.

0:01Lawrence Hill -The Illegal

Hamilton author Lawrence Hill talks about his new book, The Illegal.

Lawrence Hill, Canadian author, on The Book of Negroes miniseries

10 years ago

Duration 4:35

Debra Arbec speaks with Lawrence Hill, who will be screening an episode of The Book of Negroes miniseries at McGill University for Black History Month.

Canada Reads 2016

Canada Reads: Clara Hughes and Lawrence Hill

8 years ago

Duration 4:34

The Illegal's celebrity champion and its author talk to CBC's Deana Sumanac about the 2016 Canada Reads winner.

Canada Reads 2016 authors dissect their first sentences

9 years ago

Duration 3:32

The authors in this year's competition Anita Rau Badami, Lawrence Hill, Tracey Lindberg, Saleema Nawaz and Michael Winter read their books' crucial first sentences