Timothy Findley
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| Born | Timothy Irving Frederick Findley October 30, 1930 Toronto, Ontario |
| Died | June 21, 2002 (aged 71) Brignoles, France |
| Occupation | novelist, short story writer, playwright, actor |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1960s-2000s |
| Literary movement | Southern Ontario Gothic |
| Notable works | The Wars, Headhunter, Pilgrim, Elizabeth Rex |
| Notable awards | Governor General's Award, Order of Ontario, Order of Canada, Trillium Book Award |
| Partner | Bill Whitehead |
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O.Ont (October 30, 1930 - June 21, 2002) was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.
One of three sons, Findley was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Allan Gilmour Findley, a stockbroker, and his wife, the former Margaret Maude Bull. His paternal grandfather was president of Massey-Harris, the farm-machinery company. He was raised in the upper class Rosedale district of the city, attending boarding school at St. Andrew's College (although leaving during grade 10 for health reasons). He pursued a career in the arts, studying dance and acting, and had significant success as an actor before turning to writing. He was part of the original Stratford Festival company in the 1950s, acting alongside Alec Guinness, and appeared in the first production of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker at the Edinburgh Festival. He also played Peter Pupkin in Sunshine Sketches, the CBC Television adaptation of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
Though Findley had declared his homosexuality as a teenager, he married actress/photographer Janet Reid in 1959, but the union lasted only three months and was dissolved by divorce or annulment two years later. Eventually he became the domestic partner of writer Bill Whitehead, whom he met in 1962. Findley and Whitehead also collaborated on several documentary projects in the 1970s, including the television miniseries The National Dream and Dieppe 1942.
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