King, Thomas
About Thomas King
Biography (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
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
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
Indians on Vacation with Thomas King. YouTube, 6 Sep. 2020
Thomas King: An Indigenous Renaissance. YouTube, 22 Jul. 2015