Reading for Pleasure
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alan Paton was born in South Africa in 1903. From the beginning of his career, he became heavily involved in race relations. While serving as principal at a school for delinquent African boys, he composed his masterpiece, Cry, The Beloved Country. Cry, The Beloved Country is a powerful novel revolving around the social conditions and consequences of progress facing the South African natives in the middle of the 20th century.