Keneally, Thomas
Keneally, Thomas ( 1935 – ),Australian novelist, born in Sydney. He began training as a Catholic priest at the age of 17 but in 1960 abandoned his intention to become ordained. He then worked as a schoolteacher, turning to writing full-time after the publication of his first novel, The Place at Whitton, in 1964 . This was followed by The Fear ( 1965 ), a condensed version of which was published as By the Line in 1989 . He has travelled widely in Australia, Europe, and the USA and published several accounts of his journeys, including Now and in Time to Be: Ireland and the Irish ( 1991 ), and The Place Where Souls Are Born ( 1992 ), about the American south-west. His first major success came with the publication of Bring Larks and Heroes ( 1967 ), a historical novel whose protagonist, an Irish Catholic marine, Phelim Halloran, is detached to serve in a British penal colony....
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