Little Bombs by Thomas King

Author:Thomas King [King, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781443419550
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

If you enjoyed “Little Bombs” by Thomas King, look for the print and e-book versions of the entire short story collection A Short History of Indians in Canada.

E-book: 9781443403177

Print: 9780002006163

Author Biography

THOMAS KING is one of Canada’s most beloved and critically acclaimed writers. He is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, children’s author, scriptwriter, radio personality and photographer.

In the early sixties, King got a job on a tramp steamer and spent three years working as a photojournalist in New Zealand and Australia, where he made a first attempt at a novel he describes as “real pukey stuff.” His attempts at short fiction were no better—“Blithering messes and romantic slop.”

He returned to North America in 1967, and finished a B.A. and an M.A. at California State University, Chico, and then went to the University of Utah, where he got a Ph.D. During his last year there, he got a job offer from the University of Lethbridge and, in 1980, arrived in Canada.

It was at the University of Lethbridge that King began to develop as a writer. “I met this woman, Helen Hoy, at the university,” says King. “I had nothing to impress her with, but because she was in literature, I thought I might impress her with my writing. Maybe it was Helen or maybe it was coming to Canada. In any case, suddenly I could write.” King and Hoy have been together ever since.

In 1989, Thomas King received a one-month writer’s residency at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. During that intensive month, he finished work on his first novel, Medicine River, and wrote the first draft of his second novel, Green Grass, Running Water.

Medicine River was published to critical acclaim. The New York Times described it as “precise, elegant…a most satisfying novel.” It won the Alberta Writers Guild Best First Novel Award in 1990, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Later, it was made into a CBC television movie, starring Graham Greene, and a three-part radio play, aired on CBC Radio.

Green Grass, Running Water, King’s second novel, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award in 1993 and won the Canadian Authors Award for Fiction. A national bestseller, it was also named to Quill & Quire’s Best Canadian Fiction of the Century list. Green Grass, Running Water was the runner up in CBC Radio’s 2004 “Canada Reads” contest. In the same year, King gave the prestigious Massey lectures, and the book from those lectures, The Truth About Stories, which investigates North America’s relationship with its Aboriginal peoples, won the Trillium Book Award.

King has also written three acclaimed children’s books, garnering a Governor General’s Award for A Coyote Columbus Story. His highly praised story collection, One Good Story, That One became a Canadian bestseller in 1993. His third novel, Truth and Bright Water, published in 1999, was a bestseller as well. In 2002 he published DreadfulWater Shows Up, the first book in the DreadfulWater mystery series, under the pseudonym Hartley Goodweather. The second book in the series,

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