The scope of the writings that Richard Rive produced through his lifetime resulted from his pursuit of a career as both a writer and an academic. He first earned recognition as a writer of short stories, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages and anthologized in many countries, and he went on to produce novels, plays, autobiographical writing, critical articles and commentary, and research. He was prominent among the South African protest writers of the 1950s and 1960s, and he was significant for remaining in the country at a time when many other black South African writers were either silenced through censorship or in exile. Rive contributed to the study of African and South African literature through two compilations of contemporary African prose, articles, and his literary scholarship on the novelist Olive Schreiner. Among the elements of his creative writing that have been noted by...