![]() ![]() Findley had first appeared onstage in the 1950's. In recent years, he and William Whitehead, his companion of more than 35 years, divided their time between Provence, France, and Stratford, Ontario, where Mr. But even after becoming a best-selling author, he remained fascinated by the theater. He pursued acting for 15 years before Thornton Wilder and the actress Ruth Gordon convinced him that his real talent was writing. ![]() His latest drama, ''Elizabeth Rex,'' about a meeting between William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I, opened in Birmingham, England, a few weeks ago. ![]() Along with popular novels like ''The Piano Man's Daughter'' (Crown, 1996) and ''Pilgrim'' (HarperCollins, 1999), he produced memoirs, short stories and plays. Findley had been one of Canada's best-selling and most honored authors, though fame in the United States eluded him. He was also a heavy smoker and had congestive heart failure.įor decades, Mr. Findley fractured his pelvis in a fall in early spring and died from related complications, said Iris Tupholme, his longtime editor and the publisher of HarperCollins Canada. Timothy Findley, the prolific Canadian author whose complex novels and intricately layered plays often probed the madness and immorality of the last century, died on Thursday in a hospital in the south of France. ![]()
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