Alan Paton (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter F. Alexander
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1903-1988
- Setting: South Africa
- Principal Characters: Alan Paton, James Paton, Eunice Paton, Atholl Paton, Doris “Dorrie” Paton, Doris Francis Paton, Anne Paton, Railton Dent, Jan Hendrick Hofmeyr, Joan Montgomery, Mary Benson, Peter Brown
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Authors or writers, Christianity, Liberalism, South Africa or South Africans, Biography, Apartheid
- Locales: South Africa
Alan Paton is best known for his novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), a searing account of the inhumanity of apartheid that is marked by a lyrical love for his native South Africa. Published in New York by Scribner’s without advance publicity, it became an instant best-seller—the first edition was sold out on the first day of publication. Reviews were laudatory, praising not only the novel’s human message but also its beautiful language. Paton was hailed as a major new novelist and as a political voice of extraordinary moral authority. His novel would eventually be...
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