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Lawrence Hill was born in 1957 in Newmarket, Ontario. He earned a B.A. in economics from Laval University in Quebec City and later an M. A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Hill taught undergraduate fiction writing while completing his M.A. at Johns Hopkins, and since graduating has taught mehr anzeigen creative writing in numerous adult education programs. He has worked as a full-time newspaper reporter for The Globe and Mail and The Winnipeg Free Press. He has authored several books. Hill's nonfiction books include Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians, Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada , The Deserter's Tale: The Story of An Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq, and Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning. Hill's fictional works include Some Great Thing, Any Known Blood ,The Book of Negroes, and The Illegal. The Book of Negroes won several awards including the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Hill, Lawrence
- Geburtstag
- 1957
- Geschlecht
- male
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- Canada
- Geburtsort
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Wohnorte
- Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - Ausbildung
- University of Toronto Schools
Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - Berufe
- memoirist
novelist - Beziehungen
- Hill, Daniel G. (father)
Hill, Dan (brother)
Hill, Miranda (wife)
Hill, Karen (sister)
Hill, Donna M. (mother) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Winner of Canada Reads 2009 CBC radio One [2009]
Scotiabank Giller Prize - Agent
- Levine, Ellen
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Das Buch ist ausgesprochen unterhaltsam und gut lesbar, behandelt dabei ein sehr wichtiges und interessantes Kapitel kanadisch-US-amerikanischer Geschichte.
The author presents five generations of a black family. Langston Cane V, son of a black father and a white mother looses his job to look and strats to look into family history. He describes four more Langston Canes - beginning with his father, a prominent doctor and ending with his great-great-grandfather, who escaped from slavery and came to Canada with help of the Underground Railroad.
The book is very entertaining and readable. It treats a very important and interesting chapter of Canadian-American history.… (mehr)