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Thomas Keneally


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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

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November 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
 
  25 votes, 17.7%

1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages
 
  22 votes, 15.6%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages
 
  16 votes, 11.3%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages
 
  14 votes, 9.9%

1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages
 
  13 votes, 9.2%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
 
  11 votes, 7.8%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.7%

 
  7 votes, 5.0%

1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.3%

 
  4 votes, 2.8%

 
  4 votes, 2.8%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.1%

1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.1%

1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.4%

1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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