Thomas Keneally Schepisi's "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" (1978) (based on his own novel) and played Father Marshall in the award-winning film "The Devil's Playground" (1976), also by Schepisi. In 1983, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure. Keneally was a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council from 1985 to 1988 and President of the National Book Council from 1985 to 1989. Keneally was a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he taught the graduate fiction workshop for one quarter in 1985. From 1991 to
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