name: Alan Paton
birth_date: 1903-01-11 00:00:00
death_date: 1988-04-12 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction
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about: Alan Stewart Paton was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.