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    Alan Paton was a South African writer born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He studied at the University of Natal where he graduated with distinction in physics and later became a science teacher and school principal. Paton married Doris Olive Francis in 1928 and had two sons. His wife Doris died in 1967 and he later remarried. Paton wrote the famous novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948 about race relations in South Africa and also wrote Too Late the Phalarope in 1953 about racial and political inflexibility. He was an active member of the Liberal party in South Africa in the 1950s.

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    Alan Paton was a South African writer born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He studied at the University of Natal where he graduated with distinction in physics and later became a science teacher and school principal. Paton married Doris Olive Francis in 1928 and had two sons. His wife Doris died in 1967 and he later remarried. Paton wrote the famous novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948 about race relations in South Africa and also wrote Too Late the Phalarope in 1953 about racial and political inflexibility. He was an active member of the Liberal party in South Africa in the 1950s.

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    Alan Paton was a South African writer born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He studied at the University of Natal where he graduated with distinction in physics and later became a science teacher and school principal. Paton married Doris Olive Francis in 1928 and had two sons. His wife Doris died in 1967 and he later remarried. Paton wrote the famous novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948 about race relations in South Africa and also wrote Too Late the Phalarope in 1953 about racial and political inflexibility. He was an active member of the Liberal party in South Africa in the 1950s.

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    Alan Paton was a South African writer born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He studied at the University of Natal where he graduated with distinction in physics and later became a science teacher and school principal. Paton married Doris Olive Francis in 1928 and had two sons. His wife Doris died in 1967 and he later remarried. Paton wrote the famous novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948 about race relations in South Africa and also wrote Too Late the Phalarope in 1953 about racial and political inflexibility. He was an active member of the Liberal party in South Africa in the 1950s.

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    Alan Paton

    By The Flying Monks


    Childhood

     Born January 11,1903

     Born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

     Full name – Alan Stewart Paton


    School

     Went to University of Natal

     Graduated with distinction in physics

     Became science teacher in 1925

     1935 left teaching and went to be a principal of


    Diepkloof reformatory.
    Family

     1928 married Doris Olive Francis

     1930 had son David

     1936 had son Jonathan

     Doris died of emphysema in 1967

     He married Anne Hopkins in 1969


    Books

     Early in his career took strong interest in race


    relations.
     Joined the south African institute of race relations in
    1930.
     Wrote CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY in 1948.

     Wrote TOO LATE THE PHALAROPE in 1953 and is


    a book based off racial and political inflexibility.
    Video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OMFxmsscx8
    Politics

     In the 1950s, he was a devoted member of the


    Liberal party.
     Was an active member of the party.

     He had influence on his other writer friends.

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