2010-11 Year of Culture and Creativity

Author and CBC personality Thomas King kicks off Mount Allison President’s Speakers Series

Thomas King is author of the novels Medicine River, Green Grass, Running Water, and Truth and Bright Water. He is well known for his popular CBC series about Native peoples and Aboriginal affairs, The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour (1996-2001), and for his much-cited The Truth about Stories, based on his lectures for the 2003 Massey Lecture Series. He is also a professor of English, Native literature, and creative writing at the University of Guelph, an editor of anthologies of work by other Native writers, a screenwriter, and a photographer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Telling Stories to Turtles'
A lecture by author and CBC personality Thomas King

Thomas King is author of the acclaimed novels Medicine River, Green Grass, Running Water, and Truth and Bright Water. King is well known for his popular CBC series about Native peoples and Aboriginal affairs, The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour (1996-2001), and for his much-cited The Truth about Stories, based on his lectures for the 2003 Massey Lecture Series.

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Studies, Mount Allison University c/o cverduyn@mta.ca