Timothy Findley Summary

Prompted by actress Ruth Gordon and encouraged by Thornton Wilder, Timothy Findley began to write seriously in 1956. Yet for twenty years he was best known as an actor and author of radio and televisi... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Boucher ["The Last of the Crazy People"] is almost as pleasing as its odd title. An attempt to explain the far too frequent and inexplicable headline, "&... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret Parton Like Ben Piazza, who three years ago wrote a moving first novel about boyhood called The Exact and Very Strange Truth, Timothy Findley is an actor. Again like Piazza,... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement [The Butterfly Plague] resembles an appreciative description of a fantastic film, the kind that depends on surrealistic images and a voguish "sen... Read more

In the following essay, Hulcoop provides a stylisticc discussion of Findley's work, examining how Findley uses textual and sensual markers in his early fiction as a means of drawing the reader ... Read more

In the following, Bemrose assesses the plot and principal theme of The Piano Man's Daughter. So often, Timothy Findley's fiction circles some central image, like a tribe dancing around a... Read more

York is an educator. In the essay below, she delineates Findley's focus on war and conflict in The Last of the Crazy People, "Lemonade," and other early works. It is no coincidenc... Read more