Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize in
1982 with Schindler's Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg Academy
Award-winning film Schindler's List. His non-fiction includes the memoir
Searching For Schindler and Three Famines, an LA Times Book of the Year, and
the histories The Commonwealth Of Thieves, The Great Shame and American
Scoundrel. His fiction includes Shame and the Captives, The Daughters Of Mars,
The Widow And Her Hero (shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award),
An Angel In Australia and Bettany's Book. His novels The Chant of Jimmie
Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates were all shortlisted for
the Booker Prize, while Bring Larks and Heroes and Three Cheers For The
Paraclete won the Miles Franklin Award. The People's Train was longlisted for
the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize,
South East Asia division.
Meg Keneally started
her working life as a junior public affairs officer at the Australian
Consulate-General in New York, before moving to Dublin to work as a sub-editor
and freelance features writer. On returning to Australia, she joined the Daily
Telegraph as a general news reporter, covering everything from courts to crime
to animals’ birthday parties 
