Thomas King :: Biography, Author

THOMAS KING - WRITER doubting Thomas fag is a multi-talented and accomplished writer who expresses concerns of Aboriginal people done literature. He was born in 1943 in Sacramento California to a Cherokee father and a German and Greek mother and grew up in Sacramento. In 1980, King moved to Canada with his nine-year old son and lived in Alberta for more or less ten years. He returned briefly to the United States in 1986 to receive his PhD in English Literature at the University of Utah, but is now a Canadian citizen and resides in Guelph, Ontario. King is a writer by trade, but has overly had an extensive teaching career. He worked as a Professor of inbred Studies at the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, and was also the Chair of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He currently teaches Native literature and creative writing at the University of Guelph in southern Ontario. King has written three novels Medicine River (1990), which was do into a CBC-TV m ovie, Green Grass, Running wet (1992), and Truth and Bright Water (1997). Green Grass, Running Water was nominated for the Governor Generals award for literature in 1992. He received a second nomination for the aforementioned(prenominal) award the following year for his childrens book A Coyote capital of Ohio Story. King published a collection of his short stories called, One bang-up Story, That One, in 1993. His essays, poems and other writings have appeared in many magazines, including the "The supperless Mind Review", and "World Literature in English". King has also edited collections of Native short stories for various publications across the realm and created a book of photographs of Aboriginal artists.