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:''For the suburb of Bracknell in the UK, see Lawrence Hill, Bracknell Forest, for the inner city area of Bristol, UK see Lawrence Hill, Bristol''. Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist. He is best known for his 2013 Massey Lectures ''Blood: The Stuff of Life'', his critically acclaimed 2007 novel ''The Book of Negroes'' and his 2001 memoir ''Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada''. Hill was born in Newmarket, Ontario as the son of American immigrants – a black father and white mother – who moved to Toronto from Washington, D.C. in 1953.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lawrence Hill )〕 ==Personal life== Hill was born in 1957 in Newmarket, Ontario.〔(Author Biography ). Lawrence Hill. Retrieved on 2015-04-03.〕 On his father's side, Hill's grandfather and great grandfather were university-educated, ordained ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.〔http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/event_details/id=571〕 Hill's father, Daniel G. Hill, became the first director and later the chairperson of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.〔http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/dan_hill/index.aspx〕 Daniel Hill also served as the Ombudsman of Ontario and published a still seminal work about Black history in Canada: ''The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada''.〔 Hill's mother, Donna M. Hill, came from a Republican family in Oak Park, Illinois, graduated from Oberlin College and later went on to become a civil rights activist in Washington, D.C.〔http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/dan_hill/canada.aspx〕 Donna Hill worked as a human rights activist for the Toronto Labor Committee for Human Rights in the early 1950s and worked to persuade the Ontario government to enact anti-discrimination legislation.〔 Also writing on Black history: ''A Black Man's Toronto, 1914-1980: The Reminiscences of Harry Gaiery'', Donna Hill's book was published in 1980 by the Multicultural History Society of Ontario.〔 Daniel and Donna Hill co-founded The Ontario Black History Society with Wilson O. Brooks and other friends.〔http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/dan_hill/black_history.aspx〕 Their second son, Lawrence Hill grew up in the predominantly white suburb of Don Mills, Ontario in the sixties with his brother, singer-songwriter and writer Dan Hill and sister,〔 the late Karen Hill (1958-2014), who wrote a novel, short stories, poems and an essay which remain to be published. After attending the University of Toronto Schools, Hill earned a B.A in economics from Laval University in Quebec City and later also earned an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.〔http://www.dal.ca/academics/convocation/ceremonies/honorary_degree_recipients/hon_degree_2014/lawrence_hill.html〕 Hill has been awarded honorary doctorates from The University of Toronto, Wilfred Laurier University, The University of Waterloo and Dalhousie University and is a Senior Fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto.〔〔http://media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/university-of-toronto/acclaimed-novelist-lawrence-hill-to-receive-honorary-degree/〕 Hill taught undergraduate fiction writing while completing his M.A. at Johns Hopkins,〔http://pages.jh.edu/~jhumag/0408web/hill.html〕 and since graduating has taught creative writing or mentored creative writers in numerous adult education programs, forming a rich part of his engagement with the world of Canadian letters.〔http://www.sagehillwriting.ca/〕 Some of the many places he has taught or mentored include: The Booming Ground program at the University of British Columbia, the Humber School for Writers, Sage Hill Writing Experience and The Banff Centre.〔http://annettebower.com/blog/tag/booming-ground-mentorship/〕 Hill has served numerous times on juries granting literary awards or writing grants, and has spoken many times at academic and social conferences, literary festivals, libraries, universities and high schools across Canada,〔http://www.lethbridge2014.com/#!keynotes/cqbd〕 the United States,〔http://hub.jhu.edu/gazette/2014/september-october/datebook-featured-events〕 Mexico,〔http://sanmiguelwritersconferenceblog.org/2013-keynote-speaker-lawrence-hill/〕 Europe, South America, South Africa, the Caribbean and Australia.〔http://my.alumni.utoronto.ca/s/731/start.aspx?sid=731&pgid=6575&gid=45&cid=12155&ecid=12155&post_id=0〕 Having lived and worked in Baltimore, Spain and France, Lawrence Hill presently lives with his wife, the writer Miranda Hill, in Hamilton, Ontario and in Woody Point, Newfoundland. They have four daughters and a son.〔http://lawrencehill.com/LawrenceHill.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lawrence Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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