Thomas King
Thomas King is one of Canada's premier Native public intellectuals. He was the first Aboriginal person to deliver the prestigious Massey Lectures, and he is the bestselling, award-winning author of six novels, two collections of short stories, and two nonfiction books. His work The Inconvenient Indian won the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada and lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Thomas King is one of Canada's premier Native public intellectuals. He was the first Aboriginal person to deliver the prestigious Massey Lectures, and he is the bestselling, award-winning author of six novels, two collections of short stories, and two nonfiction books. His work The Inconvenient Indian won the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada and lives in Guelph, Ontario. See less
Thomas King's Featured Books
Thomas King book reviews
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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
To Stop Repeating History--we must understand it
by LPCo, May 3, 2015
Thomas King presents not the images we have been given in school of the "making" of the US and Canada but the domination and destruction of one society to make way for another. More critically he ... Read More
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Green Grass Running Water
Stumbling over the many personae
On discussions with my book club, I discovered that my frustrations were shared: too many characters introduced in too many segments, making too many breaks in the story -
I finally decided it was ... Read More
