Merging History and Fiction: Lawrence Hill Speaks

The College of Arts' new hire in creative writing, Lawrence Hill, has kindly agreed to give a talk to the Department on the historical research that he did for his award-winning Book of Negroes. It will be November 23rd, 12:30-1:30pm, in Mackinnon 230. Everyone is welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch!

Lawrence Hill, a professor of creative writing in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, is the author of ten books, including The Illegal and The Book of Negroes, winner of various awards including The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and two-time winner of CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. Hill delivered the 2013 Massey Lectures, based on his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life. He co-wrote the adaptation for the six-part television miniseries The Book of Negroes, which attracted millions of viewers in the United States and Canada and won eleven Canadian Screen Awards this year. Hill served as chair of the jury of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.