Thomas Keneally Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. 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. Both Keneally's parents (Edmund Thomas Keneally and Elsie Margaret Coyle) were born to Irish fathers in the timber and dairy town of Kempsey, New South Wales, and, though born in Sydney, his early years were also spent
Corinna S. Schindler Corinna S. Schindler Corinna S. Schindler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and Arts. Schindler grew up in Germany where she also did her undergraduate work. As an undergraduate, Schindler attended the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She completed her diploma thesis (equivalent of a master of science) under the direction of K. C. Nicolaou at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. Schindler earned her doctorate degree at the ETH Zurich under the direction of Erick M. Carreira.Her Ph.D. thesis focused on the development of new synthetic strategies of natural products centered