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   Thomas King was born in 1943 to a Cherokee father and a mother of Greek and German descent. King grew up in Northern California, received his PhD in English literature at the University of Utah, and worked for a number of years at the University of Minnesota as Chair of their American Indian Studies program. He is, however, a Canadian citizen and has spent much of his adult life in Canada. For ten years, he was a Professor of Native Studies at the University of Lethbridge and he is currently a professor at the University of Guelph where he teaches Native literature and Creative Writing.

   Thomas King's creative and critical writing has been widely published; articles, stories, and poems of his have appeared in many journals, including World Literature Written in English, the Hungry Mind Review, and the Journal of American Folklore. He has also edited a book entitled The Native in Literature (1987) and a special issue of Canadian Fiction Magazine (1988) devoted to short fiction by Canadian Native writers. Thomas King's first novel, Medicine River, was published in 1990 and was later turned into a television movie of the same name which starred Graham Greene and Tom Jackson. Also published in 1990 was All My Relations, an anthology of contemporary Canadian Native literature that was edited by King and which also included an introduction by him and his story, "The One About Coyote Going West." In 1992, Douglas & McIntyre published A Coyote Columbus Story, King's first book for children, and it was nominated for a Governor General's Award later that year. In 1993, King received his second nomination for a Governor General's Award for his brilliant novel Green Grass, Running Water. That year was also marked by the publication of One Good Story, That One, a collection of ten of King's short stories, including "The One About Coyote Going West," "Borders," and "Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre." "Joe the Painter" was later dramatized for radio while "Borders" was adapted for television as part of the CBC series "Four Directions," for which King served as Story Editor during 1993-1994. Recently, King has created and written a popular serial for CBC Radio entitled "The Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour." A new novel, Truth and Bright Water is set to be published in 1997.

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