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Topic: Timothy Findley


  
  Timothy Findley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Findley was raised in the upper class Rosedale district of the city, attending boarding school at St.
Published to great critical acclaim, Findley's third novel The Wars went on to win the Governor General's Award for fiction and was adapted for film in 1981.
Timothy Findley received a Governor General's Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, an ACTRA Award, the Order of Ontario, the Ontario Trillium Award, and in 1985 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timothy_Findley   (391 words)

  
 Guardian | Timothy Findley
Timothy Findley, who has died aged 71 from complications following a fall in the bath at his summer home in southern France, was one of the most popular and beloved authors in English-Canada.
Findley told me that, not long after this, a fellow actor, the acclaimed Ruth Gordon, took him aside and, from her pocket, gave him what was then enough money to live on for a year - on condition that he give up the theatre and devote himself entirely to finishing a novel.
Findley also retained a childlike curiosity, seemingly about everything; many journalists realised after an interview with him was over that they had few notes in hand because he had adroitly quizzed them more than they had him.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4447619-103684,00.html   (898 words)

  
 Knitting Circle Timothy Findley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At the time of Timothy Findley's birth his family were having financial difficulties, although they were living in a large house in the wealthiest neighbourhood of Toronto.
Timothy Findley almost died of pneumonia before he was two, and he continued to have serious illnesses throughout his childhood.
Timothy Findley's first two novels were rejected by Canadian publishers and were first published in London.
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 cbc.ca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Timothy Findley was severely embarrassed one morning when someone found him sniffing rocks and seaweed on a beach in British Columbia.
Findley was briefly married to the actor Janet Reid, but the marriage was annulled, then he got together with Whitehead and the two spent the rest of their lives together.
Findley never shied from controversy, as in October 2001 when, as writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary, he gave a talk in which he compared oil companies to the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center the month before.
www.cbc.ca /news/obit/findley   (848 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Wars by Timothy Findley is a searing indictment of man's capacity to destroy the living creatures of his planet, to turn the basic elements of life-earth, air, fire, and water-into the engines of death.
Timothy Findley's novel, The Telling of Lies, is subtitled "A Mystery," and like the best works of that form, it does immediately involve the reader in the complex solution of a murder.
Timothy Findley died in Provence, France, on June 20, 2002 at the age of 71.
aurora.icaap.org /archive/findley.html   (4209 words)

  
 Timothy Findley Headhunter Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
As Findley moves further into his milieu he reveals and revels in the gossipy mixture of the corrupt and the inept who run the city.
Findley takes his time, creating a miasma of people and places through which Marlowe must move if he is to find how they all connect to the enigmatic Kurtz.
Findley skillfully begins Kurtz's breakdown when his thoughts are infected by the erotic, horrific work of the painter who runs the Club of Men.
trashotron.com /agony/reviews/findley-headhunter.htm   (633 words)

  
 Interview | Timothy Findley
I first met Timothy Findley in 1995, on tour for The Piano Man's Daughter, a book that would prove to be one of his most important and that was nominated for a Giller award and made into a film that Findley loathed.
Findley -- "Tiff" to all who knew him -- was possessed of clear blue eyes and a sharp yet gentle wit.
Findley died in hospital near his home in the south of France of complications resulting from a pelvic fracture suffered in the spring of 2002.
www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/timothyfindley.html   (1773 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Author Timothy Findley dead at 71- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Findley died in a French hospital from continuing complications from a pelvic fracture he suffered in early spring.
Findley, who wrote scores of novels and plays, said he was uncomfortable labeling his work.
Findley's career of exploration was sparked by an affluent childhood marked by conflict.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1024659974248_20069174?hub=Entertainment&subhub=PrintStory   (689 words)

  
 e.Peak (5/11/2001) arts: reading: Timothy Findley reads from Spadework
Findley mentions this early on in the reading, speaking of his home in "Provance..." making an elegant theatrical gesture as he said it.
Findley's roots are in theatre (his Governor General's Awardwinning play Elizabeth Rex just finished a successful run at the Stanley the night before) and this translates into a marvelous presence before a crowd.
Findley's reading was marvelous, and drove home the point that art has very little to do with appearances; that a man "made weak by time and fate" can nonetheless be an instrument of the sublime.
www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2001-3/issue10/ar-timfin.html   (554 words)

  
 TheStar.com - Popular, prolific writer Timothy Findley dead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Findley recalled his childhood as being filled with books and music — his father was a great reader and lover of the arts; his mother had dreamed of being a ballet dancer.
Findley, who declared himself a homosexual in his mid-teens and later admitted to being an alcoholic, was married briefly to Winnipeg-born actor Janet Reid, with whom he starred in the play Sanctuary in Toronto in 1958.
Findley often said it was Whitehead who kept him grounded in life, organizing their household to provide a creative space for his writing, looking after their finances, encouraging him (not always successfully) to restrict his alcohol intake — and typing his manuscripts.
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 The Writers' Trust of Canada
In the spring of 2003 The Writers' Trust of Canada established an annual award for a male writer in mid-career in the name of the late Timothy Findley.
The Timothy Findley Award serves to recognise a body of work (comprised of no less than three works of literary merit which are predominantly fiction) rather than a single book.
Findley was also honoured throughout his lifetime for his tireless contributions to the arts in Canada and abroad.
www.writerstrust.com /programs_apa_timothyfindley.html   (315 words)

  
 EDN: Memory: Timothy Findley - Inside Memory
Timothy Findley provides a compelling and engaging journey through memory in his book Inside Memory: Pages From A Writer's Notebook.
If, as Findley says, we are in large part what we are in the present moment because our memories, then the idea of being re-minded means we can change who we are through what we choose to remember, or perhaps more accurately, how we choose to remember our experiences.
Findley's comment that memory is hope reminds me of Viktor Frankl's stunning account of survival in Aucshwitz.
www.experiencedesignernetwork.com /archives/000536.html   (1089 words)

  
 Insanity Begins at Home: Madness in the Family in Timothy Findley's The Last of the Crazy People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Even the most casual reader of Timothy Findley's novels, plays, and short stories cannot help but be struck not only by the proportionately high number of mentally ill characters, but also by the attention that Findley accords to the family environment of each of these characters.
Findley's depiction of the Winslow family similarly seems to be suggesting that, although it is the child, Hooker Winslow, who is ultimately institutionalized for the murder of his family, it is the family as a unit, not any of the individual members, that is 'malfunctioning.'
While society calls such behaviour 'insane,' Findley, by presenting Hooker's feelings and actions within the context of his family environment, allows the reader to understand that the roots of his behaviour lie not in clinical mental illness but in an attempt to comprehend a reality that is ultimately unintelligible.
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 Timothy Findley: Stories from a Life by David Ingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Drawing on a wide variety of sources both critical and personal (Findley and his companion, William Whitehead, were both characteristically generous), Roberts not only produces a biography notable for its intimacy and vitality; she also recounts stories about Findley that illuminate stories by Findley.
Like Findley's narrator, Roberts conscripts her reader to share in the task of assembling a coherent whole from a series of seemingly disparate stories.
In it, dominant patterns emerge: Findley's abhorrence of fascism in all its guises; his respect for the insights granted those we call `insane'; his reverence for the natural world, for love, for imagination.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/651/findley40.html   (573 words)

  
 * News @Guelph *
Timothy Findley's extensive personal collection of theatre memorabilia is being donated to Guelph's theatre archives.
Findley and Whitehead met through the theatre in 1962 and kept all the costume designs, set designs, production photographs and props from the plays they were involved in.
Findley's final play, Shadows, was performed at the Stratford Festival shortly after Findley's death.
www.uoguelph.ca /atguelph/04-03-10/articles/findley.html   (574 words)

  
 Timothy Findley: 1930-2002
Timothy Findley, author, playwrite, and one of Canada's most acclaimed literary figures, died in his sleep on Thursday, June 20.
In fact, Findley was in France at the time of his death.
Findley is survived by his partner of more than 40 years, Bill Whitehead.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_literature/93033   (478 words)

  
 Journal of Canadian Studies: Spinach with nutmeg: A tribute to Timothy Findley
Personal contact with the writer himself is uncommon, or rare, and yet if we are speaking of Timothy Findley, we are immediately speaking of the exception to the rule.
Mr Findley is finishing the arduous task of signing box after box of his memoirs.
Timothy Findley has the incredible knack for making a young writer feel as if she will one day be in a position to feed someone's else's hunger, whether that means that she will be called upon for advice, or that she might simply feed another writer's belly.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199801/ai_n8763846   (1698 words)

  
 Journal of Canadian Studies: Intertextuality in Timothy Findley's Headhunter
This paper uses Timothy Findley's Headhunter to bring into focus literary theoretical questions about how intertextuality and influence may need to be reconceived within a post-colonial reading context.
Timothy Findley's Headhunter provides an instructive test case for thinking about the multiple functions of allusion, citation, intertextuality, parody and other roles of cultural referents made in texts in a Canadian post-colonial context.
Findley's Headhunter raises these questions through narrating the invasion of Toronto, Canada's financial capital, by the characters from Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and from a host of other texts.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199801/ai_n8769080   (1068 words)

  
 Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
Findley's 1995 bestselling novel, The Piano Man's Daughter (1995), is set in Ontario and spans from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
Over the years, Timothy Findley has received many awards and honours, including a Governor General's Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, an ACTRA Award (with his partner William Whitehead), the Order of Ontario, the Ontario Trillium Award, and he has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Timothy Findley lived most of his adult life with his partner William Whitehead at a picturesque farm, Stone Orchard, near Cannington, Ontario.
www.nwpassages.com /bios/findley.asp   (763 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Spadework by Timothy Findley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In Spadework, Timothy Findley, a master storyteller and playwright, has created an electric wordplay of infidelity and morality set on the stage of Stratford, Ontario, Findley's home territory.
Findley peoples the town with theater folk, artists, writers, and visitors (both welcome and unwelcome), and with lives that are immediately recognizable as "Findley-esque" — the lonely, the dispossessed, and the sexually troubled.
Timothy Findley's recent titles include Pilgrim, which was a finalist for the Giller Prize and his first published in the United States; You Went Away; Dust to Dust; and The Piano Man's Daughter.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0060194723-3   (434 words)

  
 Timothy Findley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Born in Toronto in 1930 and self-educated after grade 10, Timothy Findley worked as an actor for 15 years before full-time writing in 1962.
With William Whitehead, his companion of thirty-five years, Timothy Findley made his home in Stratford, Ontario and in France in Provence.
Timothy Findley died in Provence, France, on June 20, 2002.
www.writersunion.ca /f/findley.htm   (170 words)

  
 'Spadework' by Timothy Findley
Much-loved Canadian writer Timothy Findley, who died in June, has become a cultural institution north of the border.
Findley won many awards in Canada and France, yet he found little fame in the United States..
Given Findley’s devotion to the Stratford Festival, and his long residence near that Ontario town, this book should have been his magnum opus.
www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20020825review1056.asp   (688 words)

  
 Timothy Findley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Timothy Findley, O.C. Ont., (October 30, 1930 - June 20, 2002) was a Canadian novelist and playwright, who was one of Canada's most famous writers.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Findley was raised in the upper class Rosedale district of the city.
Elizabeth Rex (2000), his most successful play yet, premiered at the Stratford Festival to rave reviews.
www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Timothy_Findley   (415 words)

  
 Canadian Literature: Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Featuring primarily relatively new PhDs whose dissertations were inspired by Findley's works, with two established Findley scholars (Lorraine York and Barbara Gabriel) and a couple of young veterans of the school of publish-something-on-everything-you-read, the collection regrettably only intermittently makes good on the editors' claims "to provide.
Almost all of the papers fall into the subversion-containment model of critical argument (which isn't surprising: Greenblatt wanted to speak with the dead; Findley wants to speak with the dead, the rich, and the famous).
The essays represented in the "narrative" and "myth" sections of the collection are most reminiscent of earlier scholarship, and indeed Findley's work requires ongoing engagement with matters both of narrative form and the attractions and dangers of myth.
www.canlit.ca /reviews/175/1090_pennee.html   (420 words)

  
 CM Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The stability of their relationship enabled Findley to confront his alcoholism and to pursue fiction.
Findley's multi-faceted literary output includes seven novels, two collections of short stories, television and radio drama, plays, a screenplay, and his memoirs, Inside Memory¹, are duly chronicled and briefly described in terms of their content, themes, critical reception and conception.
Findley's involvement with the Writers' Union of Canada and PEN is also noted.
www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/cmarchive/vol22no4/rev143timothyfindley.html   (266 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Pilgrim : A Novel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Timothy Findley's Pilgrim is the story of a man who can't die even though he tries over and over to kill himself.
In Pilgrim Timothy Findley mixes fiction and fact in a necklace of words that are a feast for the soul.
Findley combines the past with an interpretation of Jungian psychology, exploring elements like the naturality of polygamy and the power and extent of the theory of a collective unconscious.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060929375?v=glance   (2297 words)

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