Timothy Findley

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TimothyFindley, born and raised in Toronto, was a playwright, actor and novelist. He died in 2002.

He acted in a 1952 CBC television adaptation of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. He was also a charter member of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

Findley debuted as a novelist with The Last of the Crazy People in 1967. His second The Butterfly Plague was released in 1969. In 1977, his third book The Wars won the Governor General's Literary Award. His novel Not Wanted on the Voyage was a Canada Reads finalist in 2008, defended by Zaib Shaikh. His novel The Piano Man's Daughter was nominated for a Scotiabank Giller Prize in 1995.

He is also the author of Famous Last Words, The Telling of Lies, Headhunter, Pilgrim and Spadework. Along with his works of fiction, he wrote two memoirs, Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook, published in 1991, and From the Stone Orchardin 2001.

Books by Timothy Findley

Interviews

Authors : Timothy Findley

13 years ago

Duration 24:49

Joyce Davidson interviews Timothy Findley, Canadian scriptwriter, novelist, and winner of the Governor General's Literary Award.

Timothy Findley on Dieppe memories

32 years ago

Duration 2:31

Canadian author Timothy Findley presents an essay on how the triumph and horror of Dieppe changed a nation.

Archives11:44Timothy Findley on his novel The Wars

The Wars author Timothy Findley talks to CBC radio host Don Harron about how he came to write about the First World War.