He then became the first playwright in residence at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa beforeįindley based The Wars’ protagonist Robert Ross partly on his uncle, Thomas Irving Findley. He also wrote two screenplaysĪnd co-wrote the 1974 CBC TV miniseries The National Dream, based on the book by Pierre Berton. He published two novels outside Canada: The Last of the Crazy People (1967) and The Butterfly Plague (1969). You learnĪll of that in the theater and you take that into your prose.”įindley began writing after actor Ruth Gordon and playwright Thornton Wilder both encouraged him. How to bring something to a climax at the end of Act One or the first chapter or whatever.
Because you learn language, structure, cadence, rhythm, how to build the tension. He later described acting as “the best apprenticeship for a writer. Findley acted throughout North American and England. In 1953, he was a member of the first acting company at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. (He died in France on 21 June 2002.) Uninterested in school, he dropped out after Grade 10, studying dance and acting. Timothy Findley was born in Toronto on 30 October 1930. Timothy Findley's writing displays a broad range of subject matter, always treated with imagination.
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