Schindler's Ark Schindler's Ark Schindler's Ark (released in America as Schindler's List) is a Booker Prize-winning historical fiction novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie "Schindler's List" directed by Steven Spielberg. The United States version of the book was called "Schindler's List" from the beginning; it was later reissued in Commonwealth countries under that name as well. The novel was also awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction in 1983. The book tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a Nazi Party member who turns into an unlikely hero by
Thomas Keneally He worked as a Sydney schoolteacher before his success as a novelist and was a lecturer at the University of New England (1968–70). His father, Edmund Thomas Keneally, flew for the RAAF in World War II, then returned to work in a small business in Sydney. 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. Kenneally's first story was published in the "Bulletin" magazine in 1962 under the pseudonym Bernard Coyle. By February 2014, he had written over 50