Lawrence Hill

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born

Canada

gender

male

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http://www.lawrencehill.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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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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Books by Lawrence Hill

Average rating: 4.35 · 13,583 ratings · 2,362 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Someone Knows My Name 4.40 avg rating — 12,734 ratings — published 2007 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Any Known Blood: A Novel 3.73 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Some Great Thing 3.52 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada 3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Aminata 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Trials and Triumphs: Story of African Canadians 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993	My rating:
	Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Any Known Blood 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Tryals of Rob. Green, Hen. Berry; Law. Hill for the Murder of Sr. Edmond-Bury Godfrey Kt., One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace, Before the 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Underground 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Quotes by Lawrence Hill

“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

tags: humanity , people , relationships

26 people liked it

“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.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

13 people liked it

“Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

tags: deal-with-the-devil

8 people liked it

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Which book would you like to see as the selection for our Winter 2011 Group Reads category African American Literature?

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

37 votes 29.6%

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

30 votes 24.0%

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

17 votes 13.6%

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

10 votes 8.0%

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

7 votes 5.6%

Ain't No Sunshine by Leslie DuBois

7 votes 5.6%

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

6 votes 4.8%

The Kid by Sapphire

5 votes 4.0%

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

4 votes 3.2%

The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate

2 votes 1.6%

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