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Lawrence Hill, CM, novelist, journalist, educator, documentary writer (born 1957 in Newmarket, ON). Lawrence Hill is one of the most important contributors to Black culture in Canada, and the publication of his internationally acclaimed novel The Book of Negroes (2007) has placed him among Canada's most successful writers. He is a Member of the Order of Canada.
Lawrence Hill
Education and Family
Lawrence Hill grew up in Don Mills, Ontario (now northeast Toronto), before earning a bachelor's degree in economics from Université Laval in Québec City and a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. He is the son of a mixed marriage between American immigrants (his father was African American, his mother white). His father, Daniel Grafton Hill, was the first director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the author of The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada (1981). His mother, Donna M. Hill, was a human rights activist with the Toronto Labour Committee for Human Rights in the early 1950s. Donna played an important role in promoting the adoption of anti-discrimination laws by the Ontario government, and is the author of A Black Man’s Toronto, 1914–1980: The Reminiscences of Harry Gairey (1980). Donna and Daniel co-founded the Ontario Black History Society in 1978. Lawrence’s brother, Dan Hill, is a highly successful singer and songwriter, and his sister, Karen Hill, was an accomplished poet who died in 2014.
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Lawrence Hill, CM, novelist, journalist, educator, documentary writer (born 1957 in Newmarket, ON). Lawrence Hill is one of the most important contributors to Black culture in Canada, and the publication of his internationally acclaimed novel The Book of Negroes (2007) has placed him among Canada's most successful writers. He is a Member of the Order of Canada.
Lawrence Hill
Education and Family
Lawrence Hill grew up in Don Mills, Ontario (now northeast Toronto), before earning a bachelor's degree in economics from Université Laval in Québec City and a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. He is the son of a mixed marriage between American immigrants (his father was African American, his mother white). His father, Daniel Grafton Hill, was the first director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the author of The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada (1981). His mother, Donna M. Hill, was a human rights activist with the Toronto Labour Committee for Human Rights in the early 1950s. Donna played an important role in promoting the adoption of anti-discrimination laws by the Ontario government, and is the author of A Black Man’s Toronto, 1914–1980: The Reminiscences of Harry Gairey (1980). Donna and Daniel co-founded the Ontario Black History Society in 1978. Lawrence’s brother, Dan Hill, is a highly successful singer and songwriter, and his sister, Karen Hill, was an accomplished poet who died in 2014.
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