"The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf."
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Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian, novelist playwright, and essayist. His best-known work, Schindler's Ark, won the Booker Prize and was adapted as the film Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg.
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