Profile: Pat Stevens

About This Author

Patrick John Stevens was born in Johannesburg in the same month Steve Bantu Biko was born, December 1946 was coincidently also the month that Alan Paton completed his great novel Cry, the Beloved Country, so some characters in the early Pat Stevens novels derive from both sources. These four books in The Greatest Game series, describe the events leading to the 1994 South African transition to democracy, detailing the scepticism of the press that almost derailed the process. Unfortunately these purveyors of doubt are still around today, a fifth novel titled Hero of the Struggle is set against the rise to power of Jacob Zuma, it describes the complicity of the press in his persecution and the long struggle to effect the dropping of charges. A sixth semi-autobiographical childhood book titled White Bird Under the Sun is also available, as is an anthology of short pieces titled Parables and Poems, while the keenly awaited Zulu Vampire has now being posted.