Thomas Keneally

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Thomas Keneally


Born
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
October 07, 1935

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Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982, which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Often published under the name Tom Keneally in Australia.

Life and Career:

Born in Sydney, Keneally was educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, where a writing prize was named after him. He entered St Patrick's Seminary, Manly to train as a Catholic priest but left before his ordination. He worked as a Sydney schoolteacher before his succe
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Quotes by Thomas Keneally  (?)
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“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

“Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't”
Thomas Keneally

“The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.”
Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

Polls

May 2015 New School Classics Poll

Which book would you choose for our May New School group read?

 
  8 votes, 21.1%

 
  5 votes, 13.2%

 
  5 votes, 13.2%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages
 
  4 votes, 10.5%

1915, The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 417 pages
 
  4 votes, 10.5%

 
  4 votes, 10.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.9%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.9%

 
  2 votes, 5.3%

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