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Thomas King (novelist)

Canadian writer and broadcast presenter (born 1943)

Thomas King CC
King in 2008
Born	(1943-04-24) April 24, 1943 (age 81) Roseville, California, US
Pen name	Hartley GoodWeather
Occupation	Writer presenter activist academic
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

Thomas King CC (born April 24, 1943) is an American-born Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about First Nations.^[1]

Early life and education

Thomas Hunt King was born in Roseville, California, on April 24, 1943.^[2]^[3] He self-identifies as being of Cherokee, Greek, and German descent, but the recognized cheokee tribes, tribes with some of the most detailed genealogy records in the USA, have no recorded documentation t

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Thomas King came to Canada almost by accident. In 1980 he wanted to start a new life for himself and his nine-year old son after the breakup of his marriage. An old friend from Alberta called to tell him about a teaching position at the University of Lethbridge. he said no at first, but several phone calls later, he found himself driving north from Utah to Alberta.

“We hit an incredible hailstorm on the way up, just before the Alberta border,” he recalls. “The hailstones were so big that we had to park under an overpass and wait it out.” It was a dramatic welcome to a country where King would eventually settle permanently. He now laughs at his son’s reaction to the intensity of the storm. “My son looked at me and said, ‘Just so we get this straight Dad. This was your idea.’”

Years later Thomas King, now a Canadian citizen, lives a world away from the sudden summer squalls and edge-of-the-planet vastness of the Alberta prairie that he called home for a decade.

Outside the 1920s brick house he shares with his partner Helen and their two children in Guelph, Ontario, a

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Thomas King was born on April 24, 1943 in Sacramento, California to a mother of Greek and Swiss-German descent and father who was Cherokee. King and his brother were raised by their mother after their father left the family. Although he was baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church, King enjoyed an eclectic sampling of religious influences in his childhood from the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Evangelical churches. King attended private Catholic and public schools in middle school and high school before flunking out of Sacramento State University in his first year. King went on to join the Navy and was discarded due to a knee injury soon thereafter. He held an odd assortment of jobs including ambulance driver, blackjack dealer, and junior executive at the Bank of America. A few years later he quit his job at the bank and traveled to New Zealand to work as a journalist/photographer. Returning to the United States, he completed his B.A. and M.A. at the Chico State University in California. He obtained his Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah in 1971. King’s dissertation concen