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Alan Stewart Paton Collection
This collection was donated to the library by Prof. Edward Callan (WMU Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, 1995), a bibliographer of the works of Alan Paton. It includes correspondence between Alan Paton, Paton's family, and Edward Callan from 1966 - 1996.
Apart from being a bibliographer, Edward Callan also wrote critical studies of Paton's works. Edward Callan compiled several bibliographies on Paton's work such as Alan Paton (New York: Twain Publisher, 1968), a revised edition of Alan Paton (Boston: Twain Publishers, 1970), and a bibliography of Alan Paton in German entitled: Alan Paton (Hamburger Bibliographien) (Hamburg: H. Christians, 1970) .
Paton was a South African writer (1903-1988) born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, on the east side of South Africa. He is renowned for the novels: Cry, he Beloved Country (1948), and Apartheid and the Archbishop: The Life and Times of Geoffrey Clayton, Archbishop of Cape Town (1974).
Included in the collection are liberal magazines edited by Paton, essays, poetry, books, playbills, photographs, and reviews of Paton's works.