King, Thomas

About Thomas King

Biography (The Canadian Encyclopedia)

Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Profile (The Globe & Mail)

 

Reviews

Parravano, Martha V. “Coyote Tales.” Horn Book Magazine, vol. 94, no. 3, 2018

Coyote Tales.” Kirkus Reviews, vol. 85, no. 14, 2017

Jansen, Anne Mai Yee. “One Good Story, that One.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, 2016

Deshaye, Joel. “Tom King's John Wayne The Western in Green Grass, Running Water.” Canadian Literature, vol. 225, 2015

Ridington, Robin. “Got Any Grapes?: Reading Thomas King's The Back of the Turtle.” Canadian Literature, vol. 224, 2015

Risling Baldy, Cutcha. “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.” American Indian Culture & Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 3, 2014

Burch, John R. “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.” Library Journal, vol. 138, no. 13, 2013

Christopher, Lindsay M. “The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, 2008

Teuton, Chris. “The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative.” World Literature Today, vol. 80, no. 6, 2006

Forister, Ann. “Dreadful Water Shows Up.” Library Journal, vol. 128, no. 12, 2003

Low, Denise. “Green Grass, Running Water.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994

Hemesath, James B. “Medicine River.” Library Journal, vol. 115, no. 13, 1990

 

Interviews

Botterill, Dahl. “In Conversation with Thomas King, Author of Indians on Vacation.” Cloud Lake Literacy, 26 Sep. 2020

Davies, Natasha. “Thomas King: Canada’s Native Writer Tells His Story.” First Nations Drum, 9 Sep. 2002

 

Criticism

Fraile-Marcos, Ana Maria. “'Who's Going To Look After the River?' Water and the Ethics of Care in Thomas King's The Back of the Turtle.” Canadian Literature, vol. 238, 2019

Gordon, Jon. “Comic Heroes and Green Tories: Stephen Leacock and Thomas King Creating Ethical Space on Uncommon Ground.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 43, no. 1, 2017

Rodness, Roshaya. “Thomas King's National Literary Celebrity and the Cultural Ambassadorship of a Native Canadian Writer.” Canadian Literature, vol. 220, 2014

Filipczak, Dorota. “Intruders in Canadian Gardens: Subversive Rewritings of Genesis in the Works of Timothy Findley and Thomas King.” TransCanadiana, vol. 6, 2013

Weagel, Deborah. “Helen's Quilt as Autobiographical, Social, and Political Text in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water.” Mosaic, vol. 45, no. 2, 2012

MacDonald, Tanis. “’Everybody Knows that Song’: The Necessary Trouble of Teaching Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water.” Canadian Literature, vol. 201, 2009

Stratton, Florence. “There is no Bentham Street in Calgary: Panoptic Discourses and Thomas King's Medicine River.” Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, 2004

Lousley, Cheryl. “'Hosanna Da, Our Home on Natives' Land’: Environmental Justice and Democracy in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water ." Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 81, 2004

Dvorak, Marta. “The Discursive Strategies of Native Literature: Thomas King's Shift from Adversarial to Interfusional.” ARIEL, vol. 33, no. 3-4, 2002

Cox, James H. “’All This Water Imagery Must Mean Something’: Thomas King's Revisions of Narratives of Domination and Conquest in Green Grass, Running Water.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000

Ridington, Robin. “Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, 1998

Smith, Carlton. “Coyote, Contingency, and Community: Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and Postmodern Trickster.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, 1998

 

Works

Autobiography/Life Writing

The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (2003)

 

Novels

Sufferance (2021)

Indians on Vacation (2020)

Obsidian: A DreadWater Mystery (2020)

A Matter of Malice: A DreadWater Mystery (2019)

Cold Skies: A DreadWater Mystery (2018)

The Back of the Turtle (2014)

The Red Power Murders: A DreadWater Mystery (2006)

Dreadful Water Shows Up (2002)

Truth and Bright Water (1999)

Borders (1993)

Green Grass, Running Water (1993)

Medicine River (1990)

 

Children's and Young Adult's Books

With Byron Eggenschwiler (illustr.). Coyote Tales (2016)

With Gary Clement (illustr.). A Coyote Soltice Tale (2009)

With Johnny Wales (illustr.). Coyote’s New Suit (2004)

With Johnny Wales (illustr.). Coyote Sings to the Moon (1998)

With William Kent Monkman (illustr.). A Coyote Columbus Story (1992)

 

Short Story Collections

A Good One, that One: Stories (1993)

As Editor: All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction (1990)

 

Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories

Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (2012)

With Tantoo Cardinal and Tomson Highway. Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past (2005)

As Editor: The Native in Literature (1987)

 

Audio and Audiovisual Material

Thomas King Says Making Up Stories Growing Up Set the Stage for Being an Author. YouTube, 24 Sep. 2020

Indians on Vacation with Thomas King. YouTube, 6 Sep. 2020

Thomas King: An Indigenous Renaissance. YouTube, 22 Jul. 2015

Thomas King: The Back of the TurtleYouTube, 21 Jul. 2015