Contemporary Literary Criticism


Paton, Alan (Vol. 10) | Introduction

Paton, Alan 1903–

Paton is a South African novelist and poet. A humanist and a moralist, he writes lyric novels that attack the racial situation in South Africa. (See also CLC, Vol. 4, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 15-16; Contemporary Authors Permanent Series, Vol. 1.)

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