Alan Paton
11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988
Alan Paton was a South African writer and politician, born in Pietermaritzburg in 1903. He ran the Diepkloof Reformatory for young offenders before publishing the novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948. He was a founder and later president of the Liberal Party of South Africa, which opposed apartheid and dissolved in 1968.
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Life events
Paton took a Bachelor of Science degree and then a diploma in education.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple remained married until her death in 1967.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPaton introduced a more open regime at the Johannesburg institution for young African offenders.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel, written while he travelled abroad studying penal systems, brought him international attention.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPaton helped establish the non-racial party and later served as its president.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe party disbanded rather than comply with legislation prohibiting racially mixed political parties.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPaton remarried two years after the death of his first wife.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe first volume of his memoirs covered his life up to the publication of Cry, the Beloved Country.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPaton died at his home at Botha's Hill at the age of 85.
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