Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Lawrence Hill
Born: 1957 (age 68)
Bio: Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist. He is best known for his 2013 Massey Lectures Blood: The Stuff of Life, his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada.
Known for:
- The Book of Negroes (2007)
- The Illegal (2015)
- Any known blood (1997)
- Blood: The Stuff of Life (2013)