In 1980, Thomas Keneally was in Los Angeles on a book tour to promote
Confederates, his novel of the American Civil War, and in particular of the battle of Antietam. The clasp on his briefcase had broken, so that he called into a Beverly Hills luggage store to buy a new bag. When the proprietor – Leopold Pfefferberg – discovered (without much prompting) that Keneally was a writer, he delivered a precious and unexpected gift. “It’s a story for you, I swear”. The story, as Keneally related in his Author’s Note to his novel
Schindler’s Ark(1982), was the improbable one of Oskar Schindler, “the German
bon vivant, speculator, charmer and sign of contradiction, and of his salvage of a cross-section of a condemned race during those years now known by the generic name…
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Citation: Pierce, Peter. "Schindler's Ark". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 January 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12147, accessed 26 November 2024.]
