Ezekiel Mphahlele (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
South African novelist, essayist, critic, short-story writer, editor, teacher, humanist, and poet, Ezekiel (also written Es’kia) Mphahlele (uhm-fuh-LAY-lay) is best known for his autobiography Down Second Avenue and his novel The Wanderers. Through a writing career that spans five decades, Mphahlele has been one of South Africa’s most prolific writers and provocative social critics. Because he has drawn heavily upon his experience of exile and alienation, critics have tended to view his writing as journalistic and autobiographical. This criticism is partially true, in...
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