Lawrence Hill is the author of several novels, including Someone Knows My Name, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. It was also nominated in the United States for the Huston Wright Legacy Award. In 2015, Hill was appointed to the Order of Canada 'for his contributions as an author and activist who tells the stories of Canada's black community and of women and girls in Africa.' A graduate of the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he lives in Ontario, Canada.
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Author of the #1 best-seller The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill is a writer of immense talent-and his literary reputation grows with each new work. Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by his m... SEE MORE