About+the+Author

Thomas Keneally was the author of Schindler's List. He was born in Sydney Australia in 1935, into a Irish Catholic family. He wrote his first novel in 1964 The Place in Whitton. Of many books he wrote Schindler's Ark. Later named Schindler's List to tie in with the movie. This last novel caused a controversy at the time as it was considered by some to be more a work of journalistic reporting than a novel of fiction, which is not supposed to be in the spirit of things. In any event, by the time Stephen Spielberg filmed his version of the book under the title Schindler's List in 1993, the controversy was forgotten.