Lawrence Hill

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lawrence Hill
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jan 24, 1957(1957-01-24)
Age	67
Birthplace	Newmarket
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Capricorn

Lawrence Hill Biography

Lawrence Hill is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on January 24, 1957 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. Hill’s paternal grandfather and great-grandfather were educated and elected as ministers for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The church was established by the church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1816 as the first black religious denomination within the United States.

Lawrence Hill (born 1957) is Lawrence Hill (born 1957) is a Canadian author, writer, and memoirist from Canada. He is well-known for his novel The Book of Negroes, that was inspired by Black Loyalists granted freedom and resettlement to Nova Scotia by the British following the American Revolutionary War, and his memoir from 2001 Black Berry, Sweet Juice The Story of being Black as well as White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was made into an TV mini-series in the year 2015. He was chosen in 2013 to present The Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life which was published in the same year. His ten books also include fiction and non-fiction works and some of them were translated into various languages and released in a variety of other countries.

Deeply passionate about the advancement of women and girls in Africa, Hill has worked as a volunteer in the West African countries of Niger, Cameroon and Mali since 1979. His first published work of fiction, a short story entitled “My Side of the Fence,” recounted the transformative experience of working in Niger with Crossroads International. As an honorary patron of Crossroads, in 2010 Hill founded the Aminata Fund, supporting programs for women and girls in developing areas of Africa. He returned in 2014 as a Crossroads volunteer in Swaziland.

He became the parliamentary bureau chief for the newspaper in Ottawa, covering Parliament, the Supreme Court of Canada and a wide range of cultural, economic and social issues. Resigning from his position as parliamentary bureau chief in 1986, Hill moved to Spain to begin writing fiction full-time.

Hill was born the year 1957 on the outskirts of Newmarket, Ontario, the second child of Daniel G. and Donna Mae (Bender) Hill, an interracial American couple who got married in 1953. They moved to Toronto and in which his father was working on his PhD in sociology from the University of Toronto. His father, a socioologist as well as a civil servant and activist, was later the first chairperson and director for the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Daniel Hill also served as the Ombudsman of Ontario. Hill published a influential work on Black culture within Canada: The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada.

Lawrence Hill Net Worth

Lawrence Hill is one of the richest Novelist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lawrence Hill 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His mother, Donna Mae Bender, was born into an ethnically black Republican household in Oak Park, Illinois, and attended Oberlin College. Hill met her father at Washington, D.C., where she was employed by an Democratic US Senator before becoming an activist for civil rights. In the early 1950s , in Toronto, Donna Hill worked as a human rights advocate with the local Labor Committee for Human Rights. She advocated for on behalf of the Ontario government to pass anti-discrimination laws. Also, she wrote on Black Canadian history; her A Black Man’s Toronto, 1914-1980: Reminiscences of Harry Gairey (1980) was published by the Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

Hill was born in Newmarket, Ontario, to an American couple who had emigrated into Toronto after emigrating from Washington, D.C., in 1953. Hill’s father was African-American, and his mother was white.

Daniel and Donna Hill co-founded The Ontario Black History Society with Wilson O. Brooks and other friends. Lawrence Hill was born as the second son, and grew up with his brother Dan and sister Karen in the predominantly white suburb of Don Mills, Ontario. Dan Hill became a singer-songwriter and writer, and their sister, the late Karen Hill (1958-2014), was also a writer. Her novel, short stories, poems and an essay are still to be published.

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Hill has been on the advisory council of Book Clubs for Inmates since 2010. He has also been a member of the Council of Patrons of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, since 2011. Hill is an honorary patron of Project Bookmark Canada since 2012. He is a member of PEN Canada and an active member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, for which he has chaired and sat on various committees and served on the National Council.

Facts & Trivia

Lawrence Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Lawrence Hill celebrates birthday on January 24 of every year.

Aminata became a bestseller in Quebec, where it won Le combat des livres on Radio-Canada. It was also published by Présence Africaine in Paris, France, where it was shortlisted, in 2013, for the Prix Fetkann.

Is Lawrence Hill Black?

Lawrence Hill is the son of American immigrants — a black father and a white mother — who came to Canada the day after they married in 1953 in Washington, D.C. Growing up in the predominantly white suburb of Don Mills, Ontario in the sixties, Hill was greatly influenced by his parents’ work in the human rights movement …

What is Lawrence Hill known for?

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.

What nationality is Lawrence Hill?

Canadian

Where is Lawrence Hill Books located?

Lawrence Hill Books was founded in Brooklyn, New York , by leftist publisher Lawrence Hill in 1973 and was acquired by Chicago Review Press in 1993.

What was Lawrence Hill greatest accomplishment?

Hill has received nine honorary doctorates from Canadian universities, as well as the Governor General’s History Award. He has been named a Library and Archives Canada Scholar, been appointed to the Order of Canada and inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame.