Consignment added 2010

Containers:

Box 1-30

Component identifier:

Class MS Acc10.139

Content Summary:

Comprises papers documenting Thomas Keneally's career as a writer. They include correspondence, research material, notes and notebooks, draft manuscripts, proofs, speech texts, legal papers, and film and play scripts. Titles of works by or about Keneally which are represented in the papers include: Searching for Schindler; Rimau (a South Australian Film Corp film proposal which Keneally subsequently published as The widow and her hero); Thomas Keneally's Ireland (a documentary); Our republic; The great shame : a story of the Irish in the Old World and the New; Australians. Volume 1, Origins to Eureka; The people's train; Olympic glory (an IMAX film for which Keneally wrote the script); Three famines; To Asmara; The utility player : the Des Hasler story; Childermas; American scoundrel; Transport (a musical play written with American-Irish musician, Larry Kirwan); 'Either or'; 'Ha-Nosri'; Bettany's book; Roos in shoes; and The Commonwealth of thieves. Other records relate to Keneally's interests in refugees and an Australian republic, and a legal case against J.K. Rowling for plagiarism from a book by Adrian Jacobs, The adventures of Willie the wizard (published in 1987).

Contained in MS Acc10.39, Boxes 1-30.

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