Australian · b. 1935
Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 for "Schindler's Ark," a documentary novel about a German industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews. The book became Spielberg's "Schindler's List." The Australian author has been shortlisted for the Booker four times and written over forty books. His range spans Australian history, Irish history, and wartime moral complexity.