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Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) [1] is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler 's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into Steven Spielberg 's 1993 film ...
Thomas Keneally discusses his upbringing, career and the women who have influenced him. Occupation: Writer Age: 86 Relationship status: Married Best known for: His novel Schindler’s Ark
Nov 11, 2022 · Literature. At 87, Thomas Keneally isn’t done with history yet. The Schindler’s List author is back with the fascinating story of Irish exile John Mitchel, whose tale shows that “the past is...
Feb 11, 2023 · At 87, with well in excess of 50 books to his name including the Booker Prize-winning Schindler’s Ark and, most recently, Fanatic Heart, the story of Young Irelander John Mitchel, Keneally is...
- Early Novels
- Novels of The Late 1970s
- Historical War Novels
- Schindler's List
- Later Works
- Career in The 1990s
- Further Reading
Keneally's early works tend to reflect his interests in spiritual matters and contemporary social issues. In the allegorical novel A Dutiful Daughter (1971), which Garry Wills of the New York Times Book Review called "an extraordinary book in every way, " Keneally drew a nightmarish portrait of a close-knit family coping with the sudden and incompr...
A Victim of the Aurora (1977) combines the adventure of Antarctic exploration with the intrigue of a classic murder mystery. In a favorable review of the novel in the Spectator, Peter Ackroyd noted that Keneally "astutely aligns the imaginative content of historical fiction with the pert structure of the detective thriller, and by conflating them c...
In addition to the balanced portrait of Joan of Arc, Blood Red, Sister Rose drew critical praise for its realistic depiction of the brutality of medieval warfare. In a number of subsequent works Keneally approached the subject of war from varying perspectives, including the thoughts of a World War I peace negotiator in Gossip from the Forest (1975)...
While the film version of Schindler's List, brought world fame to Keneally, the work had already brought literary fame-as well as controversy-when it won the Booker McConnell fiction prize in 1982. Like many of Keneally's works, the novel is based on historical events during wartime, and in the case of Schindler's List, reflects the testimony of su...
Keneally turned to contemporary warfare with his 1989 novel To Asmara: A Novel of Africa, a fictional consideration of civil strife in Ethiopia during the 1980s. The novel depicts the struggle of the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front to overcome Ethiopian domination as witnessed by the narrator, an Australian journalist. In a favorable assessment i...
Keneally's reputation rests primarily on his prolific fiction output, yet he has also written a number of nonfiction works on Australia as well as the travel books Now and in Time to Be: Ireland and the Irish (1992) and The Place Where Souls Are Born: A Journey into the Southwest(1992). Keneally lived in the United States and taught at the Universi...
Brown, Susan Windisch, ed., Contemporary Novelists,6th ed., St. James Press, 1997. Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series,Volume 50, Gale Research, 1996. Encounter,February, 1983, pp. 65-71. Listener,September 22, 1977, pp. 382-83; October 14, 1982, p. 31. London Review of Books,November 7, 1985, pp. 24-6. Maclean's,August 28, 1995, p. 50. New S...
Thomas Keneally was born October 7, 1935 in Sydney, Australia. His parents, Edmund Thomas Keneally and Elsie Margaret Coyle were born to Irish dads in the dairy and timber town of Kempsey, New South Wales, and even though he was born in Sydney, his early years were spent in Kempsey.
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Thomas Keneally was born in 1935 and his first novel was published in 1964. Since then he has written a considerable number of novels and non-fiction works. His novels include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Schindler's List and The People's Train.
