About The Author
PATON, ALAN
Alan Paton was born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In 1922 he graduated from the University of Natal with a degree in mathematics (and later a second degree in education). Beginning in 1925 he taught at a native school in Ixopo, and following that he became principal of Diepkloof Reformatory (for boys).
After World War II, he began studying prisons and reformatories, traveled to the United States, England, Canada, and Sweden. While on this trip he got the idea for Cry, the Beloved Country, which was published in 1948.
Some of Alan Paton's other works are Too Late the Phalarope (1953), The Land and the People of South Africa (1955), Hope for South Africa (1959), Tales From a Troubled Land (1961), Debbie Go Home (1961), and Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful (1982).
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