Question: Who wrote the novel that William Kotcheff's Australian classic movie of the same name was based on?
Context: The Christian Brothers is a play by Australian writer Ron Blair first performed in 1975.  It is a one-man play about a teacher at a Christian Brothers school.  It was based on Blair's experience of studying at a Christian Brothers school in Lewisham and has come to be regarded as an Australian classic.  Peter Caroll performed in the original Nimrod Theatre production. William Theodore "Ted" Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931; as Velichko Todorov Tsochev) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director and producer, known primarily for his work on several high-profile British and American television productions such as "Armchair Theatre" and "".  He has also directed numerous successful films including the seminal Australian classic "Wake in Fright," action films such as "First Blood" and "Uncommon Valor", and comedies like "Weekend at Bernie's, Fun with Dick and Jane," and "North Dallas Forty".  He is sometimes credited as William T. Kotcheff, and currently resides in Beverly Hills, California. Wake in Fright (initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson.  Based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, the film follows a young schoolteacher from Sydney who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia. Scott Marble (1847 – April 5, 1919) was a playwright who wrote the 1896 stage melodrama "The Great Train Robbery".  Seven years later would become a classic movie Western.  His other plays include "Tennessee's Pardner" (1894), "The Sidewalks of New York" (1895), "The Cotton Spinner" (1896), "The Heart of the Klondike" (1897), "Have You Seen Smith?"  (1898), "On Land and Sea" (1898), and "Daughters of the Poor" (1899). The Warriors is a novel written by Sol Yurick and Illustrated by Frank Modell in 1965.  It became the inspiration for the cult classic movie "The Warriors".  Compared to the movie, the novel takes a closer look at the concepts of sexuality, reputation, family, and survival.  Because the movie was produced in 1979, a full fourteen years after the book was printed, certain key traits were rewritten to reflect cultural evolution. Peter Bryan George (26 March 1924 – 1 June 1966) was a British author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel "Red Alert", published initially with the title "Two Hours To Doom" with the pseudonym Peter Bryant.  The book was the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's classic movie "". The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".  The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic "My Brilliant Career" (published in 1901) and for bequeathing her estate to fund this award.  As of 2016, the award is valued A$60,000. Lucky Chance is a 1994 Telugu, Comedy film, produced by C. Sarath Babu on Sri Madhav Arts banner and directed by Siva Nageswara Rao.  Starring Rajendra Prasad, Kanchan in the lead roles and music composed by Sri.  The film is inspired by 1954 classic movie Chakrapani, which itself was based on Malladi Venkata Krishna Murthy's novel "Vitamin M".  The film recorded as "Hit" at the box office. Joseph Furphy (Irish: Seosamh Ó Foirbhilhe; 26 September 1843 – 13 September 1912) is widely regarded as the "Father of the Australian novel".  He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel "Such Is Life" (1903), regarded as an Australian classic. The Matrix Quest is the official collective name for issues #62 through #66 in Marvel's "Transformers" comics, written by UK writer Simon Furman.  Each chapter of the story pays homage to a classic movie or book.
Answer: Kenneth Cook