Late in his fourth decade as a published author, Thomas Keneally has turned his well-honed techniques as a novelist to works of popular history. The first of them was The Great Shame (1998), his account of the Irish diaspora of the mid nineteenth...
An Australian Catholic with no immediate ties to the Holocaust, Thomas Keneally had written sixteen novels before Schindler's List (first published as Schindler's Ark, 1982) and has continued to produce a steady literary output since then. In addition...
Thomas Keneally (born 1935) is an Australian novelist and nonfiction writer who gained worldwide attention when his best-known work, the Holocaust novel Schindler's List, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture in 1993. Keneally was...
"AUSTRALIA'S got more bloody culture than a yogurt factory!" Thomas Keneally bellows jovially from Toronto, revealing with that burst of telephonic enthusiasm the two main facts of his life: First, that he is passionate as a missionary about his country; and second,,, that he...
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 2000 (2001). 598 pages. 16.99 [pounds sterling](6.99 [pounds sterling] paper) ISBN 0-340-61095-6 (62475-2 paper) ON AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION, Thomas Keneally has referred to Bettany's Book as a "sheep dreaming," a nineteenth-century white settlers' origin story occupying roughly the same position...
For the last decade acclaimed Upper West Side horror novelist Peter Straub has followed the ABC soap opera One Life to Live with such dogged enthusiasm that earlier this year the producers awarded him a walk-on role. “I played retired detective Pete Braust,” Mr. Straub...
In the essay below, Petersson investigates the parallels between Keneally's use of German imagery and the Australian cultural experience, correlating German traits to similar Australian values.
In the following essay, Hospital characterizes Keneally's protagonists as movern-day Jeremiahs, interspersing her analysis with an interview of Keneally, in which he discusses political aspects of religion and authobiographical elements of his writings.
