![]() ![]() ![]() Following this, King worked several jobs, including as an ambulance driver, bank teller, and photojournalist in New Zealand for three years. After flunking out of Sacramento State University, he joined the US Navy for a brief period of time before receiving a medical discharge for a knee injury. Īs a child, King attended grammar school in Roseville, California, and both private Catholic and public high schools. In his series of Massey Lectures, eventually published as a book The Truth About Stories (2003), King tells that after their father's death, he and his brother learned that their father had two other families, neither of whom knew about the third. King says his father left the family when the boys were very young, and that they were raised almost entirely by their mother. Thomas King, who was born in Roseville, California, on April 24, 1943, claims German and Greek descent from his mother and unconfirmed and not tribally recognized Cherokee descent from his father. ![]() Thomas King CC (born April 24, 1943) is a Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about First Nations. Medicine River Green Grass, Running Water The Truth About StoriesĬhristian (born 1971), Benjamin (born 1985) and Elizabeth (born 1988) Postmodern, trickster novel comedy and drama script ![]()
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