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Thomas King (novelist)

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Thomas King (novelist)

Thomas King (born April 24, 1943) is an American-born Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about First Nations. Though he previously said that he was of partial Cherokee descent, King accepted findings by genealogists in 2025 that he has no Indigenous ancestry.

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Born
(1943-04-24) April 24, 1943 (age 82)Roseville, California, US
Pen name
Hartley GoodWeather
Occupation
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Citizenship
United States, Canada
Period
1980s–present (as writer)
Genre
Postmodern, trickster novel; comedy and drama script
Subject
First Nations
Notable works
Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; The Truth About Stories
Notable awards
Order of Canada, 2004
Children
3

Tables

Guelph – 2008 Canadian federal election · Electoral record
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
mw- ±%
Liberal
Frank Valeriote
18,977
32.22%
-6.17
Conservative
Gloria Kovach
17,185
29.18%
-0.57
Green
Mike Nagy
12,456
21.15%
+12.43
New Democratic
Thomas King
9,709
16.49%
-5.51
Marijuana
Kornelis Kleverling
172
0.27%
N/A
Libertarian
Philip Bender
159
0.27%
N/A
Communist
Drew Garvie
77
0.13%
-0.05
Animal Alliance
Karen Levenson
73
0.12%
N/A
Independent
John Turmel
58
0.10%
N/A
Marxist–Leninist
Manuel Couto
29
0.05%
-0.02

References

  1. The Canadian Encyclopedia
    https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/thomas-king
  2. The Globe and Mail
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/thomas-king-still-not-the-indian-you-had-in-mind/article4426067/
  3. "Guelph author Thomas King promoted within Order of Canada"
    https://www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/news/indigenous-actor-author-elder-leaders-appointed-to-order-of-canada/
  4. CBC Radio: As It Happens
    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/niigaan-sinclair-thomas-king-9.6992087
  5. The Globe and Mail
    https://web.archive.org/web/20251124215147/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/books/article-thomas-king-cherokee-ancestry-genealogy/
  6. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/25/canadian-author-thomas-king-not-indigenous-cherokee-inconvenient-indian
  7. CBC Radio One
    https://web.archive.org/web/20100514033049/http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey/massey2003.html
  8. The truth about stories : a native narrative
    https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/52877468
  9. A catalog of 16 mm. educational and feature films based on the lives and works of forty American literary figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
    https://csu-chico.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=01CALS_CHI:01CALS_CHI&tab=default_tab&docid=alma991031450049702901&context=L&search_scope=MyInstitution&lang=en
  10. Inventing the Indian: White images, Native oral literature, and contemporary Native writers
    https://utah-primoprod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=UUU_ALMA21246387630002001&context=L&vid=UTAH&search_scope=EVERYTHING&tab=everything&lang=en_US
  11. University of Guelph
    https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sets/people/thomas-king
  12. Macleans.ca
    https://macleans.ca/culture/books/thomas-king-asks-what-do-whites-want/
  13. "An Interview With Thomas King". Canadian Literature (canlit.ca). Retrieved April 7, 2014.
    http://canlit.ca/interviews/18
  14. CBC News
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/thomas-king-wins-25k-rbc-taylor-prize-for-non-fiction-1.2566943
  15. The Fountain Pen
    http://web.archive.org/web/20181117054058/http://www.thefountainpen.com/cgi-bin/showstory?id=5906
  16. Quill & Quire
    https://quillandquire.com/authors/2008/10/15/king-aint-goin-to-ottawa/
  17. "Writer urges CBC to let natives tell their own stories". Toronto Star. November 20, 1993.
  18. "CBC finally releases stirring aboriginal dramas". Ottawa Citizen. November 24, 1996.
  19. National Screen Institute
    https://nsi-canada.ca/2012/03/im-not-the-indian-you-had-in-mind
  20. Quill and Quire
    https://quillandquire.com/omni/film-adaptations-of-indigenous-bestsellers-the-inconvenient-indian-the-trickster-series-to-premiere-at-tiff/
  21. University of Guelph
    https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sets/people/helen-hoy
  22. "Guelph author Thomas King promoted within Order of Canada"
    https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/guelph-author-thomas-king-promoted-within-order-of-canada-3133336
  23. CBC Books
    https://www.cbc.ca/books/66-works-of-canadian-fiction-to-watch-for-in-spring-2022-1.6283875
  24. The Globe and Mail
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-thomas-king-wins-15000-stephen-leacock-medal-for-humour-writing/
  25. Quill and Quire
    https://quillandquire.com/awards/2014/09/03/thomas-king-bev-sellars-among-finalists-for-2014-burt-award-for-first-nations-metis-and-inuit-literature/
  26. The Globe and Mail
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/thomas-king-wins-governor-generals-award-for-fiction/article21636001/
  27. Toronto Star
    https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/thomas-king-gil-adamson-among-finalists-for-50k-writers-trust-fiction-prize/article_1f398399-5ddf-5901-b04d-367ca92d8e7f.html
  28. CBC Books
    https://www.cbc.ca/books/francesca-ekwuyasi-billy-ray-belcourt-anne-carson-among-2020-governor-general-s-literary-awards-finalists-1.6004149
  29. Kitchener Today
    https://kitchener.citynews.ca/local-news/tessa-virtue-and-scott-moir-receive-order-of-canada-3132390
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