Lawrence Hill is a magnificent, inspiring and creative storyteller that touches all generations with his masterpieces. He is an award-winning Canadian novelist that has written books like Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and of course the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes. This novel has won him numerous awards and has received him much needed praise. For example, it was a #1 Canadian Bestseller and was named one of the top 100 books of the 2007 by the Globe and Mail. Lawrence Hill was born in Toronto in 1957 into an interracial home, his father was black and his mother was white. Hill’s parents and his upbringing have an enormous impact on his writing making his novels greatly more personal. His hard work and dedication has also won him the 2007 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the 2008 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize along with other well-deserved awards. Lawrence Hill is a refreshing novelist that makes his readers question issues and life changing ideas.
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