World Literature Today, March 22nd, 1995
If the greatest biographies of literary figures combine critical intelligence, graceful style, comprehensiveness, historical exactitude, and a deep awareness of the humanity of their subjects, then Peter F. Alexander has made a significant contribution to the art of biography, adding it to his earlier volumes on Roy Campbell and William Plomer and establishing himself - though he has emigrated to Australia - as a distinguished South African man of letters in his own right. The long history of racial struggle in South Africa in this century cannot be understood without reference to the life of...
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