Google is celebrating South African author and activist Alan Paton with a new Google Doodle on Wednesday, marking what would have been Paton’s 115th birthday. Born in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South ...

The widow of Alan Paton, who wrote “Cry the Beloved Country,” has expressed anger at the recent resurfacing of a letter she wrote 10 years ago. Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was ...

The hair is the color of vanilla ice cream, and it spills to his shirt collar, but his lips are what you really notice. They are thin, and when pressed together, they convey the message that this is a ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The widow of Alan Paton, who wrote “Cry the Beloved Country,” has expressed anger at the recent resurfacing of a letter she wrote 10 years ago. In the ...

Alan Paton, whose 1948 novel ”Cry, the Beloved Country” first focused world attention on what he called ”the gross inequalities” of South African life, died of throat cancer Tuesday on his estate ...

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As much as his great 1948 novel Cry, the Beloved Country brought the horrors of racial injustice in South Africa to the world’s attention, Alan Paton’s own life was witness to the wasting myopia that ...