Thomas King

Thomas King, who is of Cherokee and Greek descent, is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer. His first novel, Medicine River, won several awards, including the PEN/Josephine Miles Award and the Writers Guild of Alberta Award, and was shortlisted for the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. It was also made into a CBC television movie. Green Grass, Running Water, his second novel, was shortlisted for the 1993 Governor General's Award and won the 1994 Canadian Authors Award for fiction. His highly praised short story collection, One Good Story, That One, was a Canadian bestseller, and his collection of Massey Lectures, The Truth About Stories, won the 2003 Trillium Book Award. He has also written three acclaimed children's books: A Coyote Columbus Story, Coyote Sings to the Moon, and Coyote's New Suit. Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario, and is an Associate Professor of English (teaching Native literature and creative writing) at the University of Guelph.

Books by Thomas King

Black Ice

The Green Baby Swing

Double Eagle

Deep House

My Lala

Sufferance

Obsidian

Cold Skies

Borders

Coyote Columbus Story / Coyote Solstice

Indians on Vacation

77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin

Matter of Malice

A Matter of Malice

The Red Power Murders

DreadfulWater

The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated

Coyote Tales

The Back Of The Turtle

One Good Story, That One

Medicine River

Not Counting The Indian, There Were Six

Rendezvous

Where The Borg Are

States To Avoid

Not Enough Horses

Noah's Ark

The Baby In The Airmail Box

The Closer You Get To Canada, The More Things Will Eat Your Horses

The Colour Of Walls

Domestic Furies

Haida Gwaii

Bad Men Who Love Jesus

Coyote And The Enemy Aliens

Tidings Of Comfort And Joy

The Garden Court Motor Motel

The Dog I Wish I Had, I Would Call It Helen

Fire And Rain

Little Bombs

Another Great Moment In Canadian Indian History

The Inconvenient Indian

Green Grass, Running Water

A Short History Of Indians In Canada

DreadfulWater

A Coyote Solstice Tale

A Coyote Columbus Story

The Red Powers Murders

Coyote Sings to the Moon

A Short History Of Indians In Canada

Our Story

Coyote's New Suit

DreadfulWater Shows Up

The Truth About Stories

The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose

Truth And Bright Water

One Good Story, That One

Round Dance