MISSION VIEJO : ‘Schindler’s List’ Author to Speak

Thomas Keneally, the author of “Schindler’s List,” will speak today at Saddleback College.

The noon event, in Room 225 of the Student Services Center, is free and open to the public. The campus is at 28000 Marguerite Parkway.

Keneally is scheduled to talk about his book, the theme of discrimination in literature and the pitfalls and joys of transforming a book into a movie.

Keneally, a distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at UC Irvine, won Britain’s Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982 for “Schindler’s List.”

Keneally wrote the first draft for the Steven Spielberg film based on the book. The film won the Academy Award for best picture.

Besides “Schindler’s List,” Keneally has published more than 25 novels and written a dozen screenplays.

For more information about the event, call (714) 582-4788.