Lawrence Hill is an award-winning Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes. Hill, the son of social scientist and public servant Daniel G. Hill and social activist Donna Hill and the brother of singer-songwriter Dan Hill, grew up in the Don Mills neighbourhood of Toronto. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife and five children.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Person/activeYearsEndDate
  • 1990-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/activeYearsStartDate
  • 1990-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/nationality
dbpedia-owl:Writer/notableWork
dbpedia-owl:activeYearsEndDate
  • 1990-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:activeYearsStartDate
  • 1990-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:nationality
dbpedia-owl:notableWork
dbpedia-owl:thumbnail
dbpprop:abstract
  • Lawrence Hill is an award-winning Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes. Hill, the son of social scientist and public servant Daniel G. Hill and social activist Donna Hill and the brother of singer-songwriter Dan Hill, grew up in the Don Mills neighbourhood of Toronto. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife and five children. In 2007, Hill collaborated with former US-Army Soldier Joshua Key to write Key's account of the Iraq War. His book The Deserter's Tale, the story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq is the result of their interviews and meetings.
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:name
  • Lawrence Hill
dbpprop:nationality
dbpprop:notableworks
  • ''Black Berry, Sweet Juice'', '' The Book of Negroes''
dbpprop:occupation
  • novelist, non-fiction writer
dbpprop:period
  • 1990s-present
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Lawrence Hill is an award-winning Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes. Hill, the son of social scientist and public servant Daniel G. Hill and social activist Donna Hill and the brother of singer-songwriter Dan Hill, grew up in the Don Mills neighbourhood of Toronto. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife and five children.
rdfs:label
  • Lawrence Hill
  • Lawrence Hill
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:depiction
foaf:name
  • Lawrence Hill
foaf:page
is dbpedia-owl:Work/author of
is dbpedia-owl:author of
is dbpprop:author of
is dbpprop:headquarters of
is owl:sameAs of