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Alan Paton was a courageous South African author whose courage was manifest in his novels, written during the vicious apartheid era in his country. He wrote historical novels about his homeland, courageous novels which spoke more of truth than of fiction. In his book, Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful (Scribners, 1981), he described a meeting between the white headmaster of a school, Mr. Mansfield, and a black man, Mr. Nene, who was a government civil servant. Mr.