Novelist THOMAS KENEALLY. He's best known for his novel, Schindler's List which was put to film, by director Stephen Spielberg. His new novel, A River Town (Doubleday) is based on the story of his grandfather who left Ireland for Australia at the turn of the century to escape confining social codes. But in Australia he became the outsider, "a white nigger" he says. KENEALLY has written over 20 novels. He is a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
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