Richard Rive: A Partial Biography, by Shaun Viljoen

A biography of Richard Rive (1930–1989), the Cape Town writer and scholar known for his short stories of the late 1950s and his novel Buckingham Palace, District Six. Shaun Viljoen portrays a man committed to the anti-racist struggle, whom others often found irascible and arrogant, and who lived with "a constant and troubled awareness of his dark skin colour" and with questions of his sexuality. The book follows Rive through his Drum years, his doctorate on Olive Schreiner at Oxford, and his return to teach at Hewat College.

Shaun Viljoen is an Associate Professor in English at Stellenbosch University. This is his first book.

Author: Shaun Viljoen

Format: Paperback

Pages: 288