Thomas Keneally books, including 30 novels. He is particularly famed for his "Schindler's Ark" (1982) (later republished as "Schindler's List"), the first novel by an Australian to win the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film "Schindler's List". He had already been shortlisted for the Booker three times prior to that: 1972 for "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith", 1975 for "Gossip from the Forest", and 1979 for "Confederates". 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 Fred
Thomas Hill (author) Thomas Hill (author) Thomas Hill (born ca. 1528) was an English astrologer, author and translator who most probably also wrote as Didymus Mountain. He was the author of the first popular book in English about gardening — "The profitable arte of gardening" — which was first published in 1563 under the title "A most briefe and pleasaunte treatyse, teachynge how to dresse, sowe, and set a garden". He went on to write other popular works, such as "The Gardener's Labyrinth" (1577). This was originally published under the name of Didymus Mountain, now generally attributed to Thomas Hill. In 1988, the