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Lawrence Hill
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place of birth
Canada
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs
about this author
Lawrence Hill is a journalist and novelist.
His third novel, published as The Book of Negroes in Canada and Someone Knows My Name elsewhere, won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
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Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill avg rating 4.36 — 751 ratings — published 1993 28 editions |
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Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill avg rating 3.73 — 49 ratings — published 1997 6 editions |
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The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq by Joshua Key, Lawrence Hill avg rating 3.55 — 42 ratings — published 2007 4 editions |
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Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada by Lawrence Hill avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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Some Great Thing by Lawrence Hill avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 1992 2 editions |
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The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating |
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The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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Trials and Triumphs: Story of African Canadians by Lawrence Hill avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1993 |
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The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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The Deserter's Tale by Joshua Key, Lawrence Hill avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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""You must learn to respect," Papa said.
"But I do not respect her," I said.
Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect."
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— Lawrence Hill (Someone Knows My Name)
"But I do not respect her," I said.
Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect."
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— Lawrence Hill (Someone Knows My Name)
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