Thomas Keneally was born in 1935 in New South Wales, Australia, to a Catholic family of second-generation Irish immigrants. He studied to be a Catholic priest for seven years, but in the end chose not to be ordained. After seminary, in the 1960s, he taught high school and later college in Sydney, Australia while he wrote his first few novels. He was a professor for a time at the University of California, Irvine, where he taught English and comparative literature.
As an Australian Catholic, Keneally seems an unlikely source for one of the most well-known Holocaust accounts. However, many of his books draw.....
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