Lesson 4-A Drink in the Passage I. Author Alan Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg South Africa. He started his career by teaching at a school in Ixopo. The dramatic career change to director of a reformatory for black youths at Diepkloof, near Johannesburg had a profound effect on his thinking. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country(1948)made him one of South Africas best known writers, and by the time he died it had sold over 15 million copies. Following his non-racial ideals he helped to found the south African Liberal party and became its president W E The end of authorLesson 4—A Drink in the Passage W B T L E Alan Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He started his career by teaching at a school in Ixopo. The dramatic career change to director of a reformatory for black youths at Diepkloof, near Johannesburg, had a profound effect on his thinking. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) made him one of South Africa’s best known writers, and by the time he died, it had sold over 15 million copies. Following his non-racial ideals, he helped to found the South African Liberal Party and became its president. I. Author The end of Author