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Ronald Suresh Roberts
British West Indian writer and lawyer
Ronald Suresh Roberts (born 17 February 1968) is a British West Indian writer and lawyer. He is best known for his biographies of two leading figures in the "New South Africa", author Nadine Gordimer and former South African President Thabo Mbeki.
Early life and education
[edit]Roberts was born on 17 February 1968 in London, England.[1] Born in Hammersmith to an Afro-Caribbean father and an Indo-Malaysian mother, he grew up in his father's homeland of Trinidad and Tobago.[citation needed] He attended Fatima College in Port of Spain and went to Balliol College, Oxford in 1986 to read law on a Trinidadian national scholarship.[1]
In 1991,[citation needed] he completed a Master of Laws at Harvard Law School.[1] His master's thesis, supervised by Randall Kennedy,[citation needed] was later published by the New York University Press as Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd: Counterfeit Heroes and Unhappy Truths, a critique of black neoconservatism.[1] After his graduation from Harvard, Roberts worked on Wall Street at Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts.[1]
Career in South Africa
[edit]In 1994, on a Winthrop-spons
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No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer
Eight years in the making, this book charts Nadine Gordimer's life and work, providing a vibrant portrait of the country in which Gordimer lives, the history she lived through, and the people around her--people in South Africa, such as Nelson Mandela, George Bizos, Es'kia Mphahlele, Bram Fischer, Nat Nakasa, Desmond Tutu and Alan Paton; and people abroad, including Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Sampson, Edward Said, Amos Oz, Harry Levin and New Yorker editor, Katherine White. Drawing upon unprecedented access to Gordimer and her documents, No Cold Kitchen gives sympathetic but rigorous attention to the full range of Gordimer's work, teasing out the inevitable contradictions between her public and private voices and granting the reader an intimate insight into what Gordimer underwent and overcame, both during apartheid and afterwards. The author shrewdly chronicles the drive that led Gordimer, who described herself as a barefoot girl from Springs, to a Nobel Prize for literature.