Thomas Keneally
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Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novel
ist, 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
, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture
.
, Keneally was educated at St Patrick's College
, Strathfield
. Subsequently, a writing prize there has been 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 success as a novelist, and he was a lecturer at the University of New England
(1968–70). He has also written screenplays, memoirs and non-fiction books.
Keneally was known as "Mick" until 1964 but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, after advice from his publisher to use what was really his first name. He is most famous for his Schindler's Ark
(1982) (later republished as Schindler's List), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List
. Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style.
Keneally has also acted in a handful of films. He had a small role in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
(based on his novel) and played Father Marshall in the Fred Schepisi movie, The Devil's Playground (1976) (not to be confused with a similarly titled documentary by Lucy Walker
about the Amish
period called rumspringa
).
In 1983 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia
(AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure
.
He is a strong advocate of the Australian republic, meaning the severing of all ties with the British monarchy, and published a book on the subject Our Republic in 1993. Several of his Republican essays appear on the web site of the Australian Republican Movement
.
Keneally is a keen supporter of rugby league football, in particular the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
club of the NRL. in 2004 he gave the 6th annual Tom Brock Lecture
. He made an appearance in the 2007 rugby league drama film The Final Winter
.
In March 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia
, Kevin Rudd
, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President Barack Obama
as a state gift.
Most recently Thomas Keneally featured as a writer in the critically acclaimed Australian drama "Our Sunburnt Country".
Thomas Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally
.
The Tom Keneally Centre opened in August 2011 at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, housing Thomas Keneally's books and memorabilia. The site is used for book launches, readings and writing classes.
-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg
, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a novelist, showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler
. Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and the sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated Schindler's Ark to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar Schindler was that "it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began. And I like the subversive fact that the spirit breatheth where it will. That is, that good will emerged from the most unlikely places". The book was later made into a film titled Schindler's List
(1993) directed by Steven Spielberg
, earning the director his first Best Director Oscar. Keneally's meeting with Pfefferberg and their research tours are detailed in Searching for Schindler: A Memoir (2007).
Some of the Pfefferberg documents that inspired Keneally are now housed in the State Library of New South Wales
in Sydney. In 1996 the State Library purchased this material from a private collector.
In April 2009 a copy of the list (including 801 names) was found in the documentation Thomas Keneally used as research material for his novel.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist, playwright and author of non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark
Schindler's Ark
Schindler's Ark is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg...
, the Booker Prize
Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...
-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg
Poldek Pfefferberg
Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg, , also known as Leopold Page, Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 September 2006. was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark, which in turn was the basis for Steven...
, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
's Schindler's List
Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...
, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only...
.
Life and career
Born in SydneySydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Keneally was educated at St Patrick's College
St Patrick's College, Strathfield
St Patrick's College is an independent, Roman Catholic, day school for boys, located in Strathfield in the inner west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
, Strathfield
Strathfield, New South Wales
Strathfield is an Inner West suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Strathfield is located 14 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipality of Strathfield...
. Subsequently, a writing prize there has been named after him. He entered St Patrick's Seminary
St Patrick's Seminary, Manly
St Patrick's Seminary, Manly was the leading seminary of the Australian Catholic Church from its foundation in 1889 to its closure in 1995.Conceived by Archbishop Vaughan, it was built from 1885 in Perpendicular Gothic style by Sheerin and Hennessy on a spectacular site overlooking the Pacific...
, Manly
Manly, New South Wales
Manly is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Manly is located 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of Manly Council, in the Northern Beaches region.-History:Manly was named...
to train as a Catholic priest
Priesthood (Catholic Church)
The ministerial orders of the Catholic Church include the orders of bishops, deacons and presbyters, which in Latin is sacerdos. The ordained priesthood and common priesthood are different in function and essence....
but left before his ordination. He worked as a Sydney schoolteacher before his success as a novelist, and he was a lecturer at the University of New England
University of New England, Australia
The University of New England is an Australian public university with approximately 18,000 higher education students. Its original and main campus is located in the city of Armidale in northern New South Wales....
(1968–70). He has also written screenplays, memoirs and non-fiction books.
Keneally was known as "Mick" until 1964 but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, after advice from his publisher to use what was really his first name. He is most famous for his Schindler's Ark
Schindler's Ark
Schindler's Ark is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg...
(1982) (later republished as Schindler's List), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List
Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...
. Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style.
Keneally has also acted in a handful of films. He had a small role in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1972 Booker Prize-nominated novel by Thomas Keneally, and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi. The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor....
(based on his novel) and played Father Marshall in the Fred Schepisi movie, The Devil's Playground (1976) (not to be confused with a similarly titled documentary by Lucy Walker
Lucy Walker
Lucy Walker is a film director, mostly of theatrical feature documentaries. On January 25th, 2010 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Waste Land, which she directed.-Film career:...
about the Amish
Amish
The Amish , sometimes referred to as Amish Mennonites, are a group of Christian church fellowships that form a subgroup of the Mennonite churches...
period called rumspringa
Rumspringa
Rumspringa Pronounced A- generally refers to a period of adolescence for some members of the Amish, a subsect of the Anabaptist Christian movement, that begins around the...
).
In 1983 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
(AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure
Australian Living Treasures
Australian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia. The first list of 100 Living Treasures was published in 1997....
.
He is a strong advocate of the Australian republic, meaning the severing of all ties with the British monarchy, and published a book on the subject Our Republic in 1993. Several of his Republican essays appear on the web site of the Australian Republican Movement
Australian Republican Movement
The Australian Republican Movement is a non-partisan lobby group advocating constitutional change in Australia to a republican form of government, from a constitutional monarchy.-Foundation:...
.
Keneally is a keen supporter of rugby league football, in particular the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League's Telstra Premiership, the premier rugby league competition of Australasia...
club of the NRL. in 2004 he gave the 6th annual Tom Brock Lecture
Tom Brock Lecture
The Tom Brock Lecture is an annual scholarly lecture organised by the Australian Society for Sports History under the bequest of Australian sports historian Tom Brock. The topic of the lecture is the history of rugby league football...
. He made an appearance in the 2007 rugby league drama film The Final Winter
The Final Winter
The Final Winter is an Australian drama film released in 2007. It was directed by Brian Andrews and Jane Forrest and produced by Anthony Coffee, and Michelle Russell, while independently produced it is being distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was written by Matthew Nable who also starred as the...
.
In March 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia
Prime Minister of Australia
The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...
, Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
as a state gift.
Most recently Thomas Keneally featured as a writer in the critically acclaimed Australian drama "Our Sunburnt Country".
Thomas Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally
Kristina Keneally
Kristina Kerscher Keneally MP, is an Australian politician and was the 42nd Premier of New South Wales. She was elected leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales and thus Premier in 2009, but went on to lose government to the Liberal/National Coalition at the March 2011 state election...
.
The Tom Keneally Centre opened in August 2011 at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, housing Thomas Keneally's books and memorabilia. The site is used for book launches, readings and writing classes.
Awards
| Man Booker Prize Man Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and... |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, shortlisted 1972 |
| Gossip from the Forest, shortlisted 1975 | |
| Confederates, shortlisted 1979 | |
| Schindler's Ark, winner 1982 | |
| Miles Franklin Award Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ... |
Bring Larks and Heroes, winner 1967 |
| Three Cheers for the Paraclete, winner 1968 | |
| An Angel in Australia, shortlisted 2003 | |
| The Widow and Her Hero, longlisted 2008 | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards Prime Minister's Literary Awards The Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced at the end of 2007 by the incoming Rudd Ministry following the 2007 election. They are administered by the Minister for the Arts.... |
The Widow and Her Hero, shortlisted 2008 |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Special Award, winner 2008 |
| Helmerich Award Helmerich Award The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is an American literary prize awarded by the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is bestowed annually upon an "internationally acclaimed" author who has "written a distinguished body of work and made a major contribution to the field of... |
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, 2007 |
Schindler's Ark
Keneally wrote the Booker PrizeMan Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...
-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg
Poldek Pfefferberg
Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg, , also known as Leopold Page, Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 September 2006. was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark, which in turn was the basis for Steven...
, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a novelist, showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving over 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.He is the subject of the...
. Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and the sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated Schindler's Ark to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar Schindler was that "it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began. And I like the subversive fact that the spirit breatheth where it will. That is, that good will emerged from the most unlikely places". The book was later made into a film titled Schindler's List
Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...
(1993) directed by Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
, earning the director his first Best Director Oscar. Keneally's meeting with Pfefferberg and their research tours are detailed in Searching for Schindler: A Memoir (2007).
Some of the Pfefferberg documents that inspired Keneally are now housed in the State Library of New South Wales
State Library of New South Wales
The State Library of New South Wales is a large public library owned by the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Macquarie Street, Sydney near Shakespeare Place...
in Sydney. In 1996 the State Library purchased this material from a private collector.
In April 2009 a copy of the list (including 801 names) was found in the documentation Thomas Keneally used as research material for his novel.
Novels
- The Place at Whitton (1964)
- The Fear (1965), rewritten in (1989) as By the Line.
- Bring Larks and HeroesBring Larks and HeroesBring Larks and Heroes is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally. It is set in an unidentified Penal colony in the South Pacific, which bears a superficial resemblance to Sydney...
(1967), winner of the Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
, set in an unidentified British penal colonyPenal colonyA penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory...
. - Three Cheers for the ParacleteThree Cheers for the ParacleteThree Cheers for the Paraclete is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally.-Awards and nominations:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1968: winner*C. Weichhardt Award for Australian Literature, 1969: winner-External links:...
(1968), winner of the Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
, comic novel of a doubting priest. - The SurvivorThe Survivor (novel)-Reviews:* "Southerly" Vol 30 No 1, 1970, by Michael Wilding...
(1969), a survivor looks back on a disastrous ArcticArcticThe Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...
expedition. - A Dutiful Daughter (1971), Keneally's personal favourite.
- The Chant of Jimmie BlacksmithThe Chant of Jimmie BlacksmithThe Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1972 Booker Prize-nominated novel by Thomas Keneally, and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi. The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor....
(1972), also filmed. Written through the eyes of an exploited Aborigine who explodes in rage. Based on an actual incident. Keneally has said he would not now presume to write in the voice of an Aborigine, but would have written the story as seen by a white character. - Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974), a novel based loosely on the life of Joan of Arc.
- Gossip from the ForestGossip from the ForestGossip from the Forest is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally which deals with the negotiations surrounding the ending of World War I.-Subject matter:...
(1975), tells of the negotiation of the armistice that ended World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
. - Season in Purgatory (1976), love among TitoJosip Broz TitoMarshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...
's partisans in World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. - Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees (1978), a book for children.
- A Victim of the Aurora (1978), a detective storyDetective fictionDetective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator , either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.-In ancient literature:...
set on an AntarcticAntarcticThe Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...
expedition. - Passenger (1979)
- ConfederatesConfederates (novel)Confederates is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally which uses the American Civil War as its main subject matter.Confederates "uses the United States Civil War as a setting for a more personal conflict between neighbors. In the midst of the war's climactic battle -- Antietam -- another...
(1979), based on Stonewall Jackson's army. - The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980), Australia at war in 1942.
- Schindler's ArkSchindler's ArkSchindler's Ark is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg...
(1982), winner of the Booker Prize, later retitled Schindler's List. - A Family Madness (1985)
- The PlaymakerThe PlaymakerThe Playmaker is a novel based in Australia written by the Australian author Thomas Keneally.In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play...
(1987), prisoners perform a play in Australia in the 18th Century. - Act of Grace (1985), (under the pseudonym William Coyle)
- By the Line (1989), working-class families face World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
in Sydney. - Towards Asmara (1989), the conflict in EritreaEritreaEritrea , officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. Eritrea derives it's name from the Greek word Erethria, meaning 'red land'. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast...
. - Flying Hero Class (1991), Palestinians hijack an aeroplane carrying an Aboriginal folk dance troupe.
- Chief of Staff (1991), (under the pseudonym William Coyle)
- Woman of the Inner Sea (1993), Keneally retells a story once told him by a young woman that haunted his imagination.
- Jacko (1993), madness and television.
- A River Town (1995)
- Bettany's Book (2000)
- An Angel in AustraliaAn Angel in AustraliaAn Angel in Australia is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally set in Australia during World War II-Notes:* Dedication: "To the memory of Sergeant Tom Keneally, 3rd Australian Squadron, RAAF, North Africa, WWII"....
(2000), also published as Office of Innocence - The Tyrant's Novel (2003), an Australian immigration detainee tells his story
- The Widow and Her HeroThe Widow and Her HeroThe Widow and Her Hero is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally set in Australia during World War II.-Awards and nominations:* Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted...
(2007), the effect of war on those left behind - The People's Train (2009), a dissident escapes from Russia to Australia in 1911, only to return to fight in the revolution
Non-fiction
- Moses the Law-Giver (1975)
- Outback (1983)
- Australia: Beyond the Dreamtime (1987)
- The Place Where Souls are Born: A Journey to the Southwest (1992)
- Now and in Time to Be: Ireland and the Irish (1992)
- Memoirs from a Young Republic (1993)
- The Utility Player: The Des Hasler Story (1993) Footballer Des HaslerDes HaslerDes Hasler is an Australian former professional rugby league player and current head coach of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. He played in 309 matches in a first-grade career spanning 16 seasons. Most of his career was spent with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, with whom he won two premierships...
- Our Republic (1995)
- Homebush Boy: A Memoir (1995), autobiography
- The Great Shame (1998)
- American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles (2002), biography of Daniel SicklesDaniel SicklesDaniel Edgar Sickles was a colorful and controversial American politician, Union general in the American Civil War, and diplomat....
- Lincoln (2003), biography of Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
- A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia (2005)
- Searching for Schindler: A Memoir (2007)
- Australians: Origins to Eureka (2009)
- Three Famines: Starvation and Politics (2011)
- Australians: Eureka to the Diggers (2011)
Drama
- Halloran's Little Boat (1968)
- Childermas (1968)
- An Awful Rose (1972)
- Bullie's House (1981)
External links
- Tom Keneally at Random House Australia
- Life and Works of Thomas Keneally
- Australian Republican Movement web site. Search for "Keneally".
- Wonders of the Ross Sea Thomas Keneally recalls his voyages to Antarctica
- 1983, 1989, 1991, 1993 RealAudio interviews with Thomas Keneally at Wired for Books.org by Don SwaimDon SwaimDon Swaim is an American journalist and broadcaster.Born in Kansas, Swaim earned a degree in broadcast journalism from Ohio University and worked as editor, writer, producer, reporter and anchor at WCBS in New York and CBS in Baltimore....
- Radio interview with Michael Silverblatt