Alan Stewart Paton (
1903 -
1988),
South African author and founder of the
South African Liberal Party[?], noted for his opposition to the
Apartheid system. He was also principal of the Diepkloof
Reformatory[?] for young offenders (
1935 -
1947). Among his works are
Debbie Go Home (
1961),
Tales from a Troubled Land (
1965) (short story collections),
Cry, The Beloved Country[?] (
1948) and
Too Late the Phalarope (
1953).
Cry, The Beloved Country was
cinematized[?] twice (
1951,
1995), and was the basis for the Broadway piece
Lost in the Stars (adaptation by Maxwell Anderson, music by
Kurt Weill).