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4 unusual facts about Lawrence Hill


Book of Negroes

The Canadian author Lawrence Hill wrote the novel The Book of Negroes (2007, published in the United States as Someone Knows My Name).

Lawrence Hill

In 2007, Hill collaborated with former US-Army soldier (now deserter) Joshua Key to write Key's account of the Iraq War.

His non-fiction books are: Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians (1993), Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association (1996), Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (2001), and The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq, with Joshua Key (2007).

Lawrence Hill, Bristol

was held by the Crown until it was granted to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester during the reign


Hugh Burnett

In his fight against discrimination, Burnett, a plain-spoken, determined activist, engaged the support of Toronto-based groups like the Joint Labour Committee on Human Rights, whose members included Donna Hill (wife of activist Daniel Hill and mother of author Lawrence Hill and singer Dan Hill) and prominent labour activist Bromley Armstrong.

Turnstone Press

Since their foundation they have began the careers of many Canadian authors which include Di Brandt, John Gould, Lawrence Hill, Sylvia Legris, Margaret Sweatman, Michael Van Rooy and Armin Wiebe.


see also

H. Rap Brown

Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography, Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill Books, 1969; London: Allison & Busby, 1970.

Miles Prance

He said that Henry Berry, Robert Green, Thomas Godden and Godden's servant, Lawrence Hill, followed and strangled Godfrey while Prance kept watch.