Editing Alan Paton (section)

==Other works==
Paton continued to explore racial themes and apartheid in his second and third novels, ''[[Too Late the Phalarope]]'' (1953) and ''[[Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful]]'' (1981), and his collected short stories, ''Tales From a Troubled Land'' (1961).<ref name=NYTimes/> 

''Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful'' was built on parallel life stories, letters, speeches, news and records in legal proceedings. Its fictional characters interacted with some historic figures, such as [[Donald Barkly Molteno|Donald Molteno]], [[Albert Luthuli]] and [[Hendrik Verwoerd]]. The novel is classified as historical fiction. It gives an accurate account of the resistance movement in South Africa during the 1960s. 

"Paton attempts to imbue his characters with a humanity not expected of them. In this novel, for example, we meet the supposedly obdurate [[Afrikaner]] who contravenes the infamous Immorality Act. There are other Afrikaners, too, who are led by their consciences and not by rules, and regulations promulgated by a faceless, monolithic parliament."<ref>''Post-Colonial African Writers,'' ed. by Pushipa Naidu Parekh and [[Siga Fatima Jagne]], 1998</ref>{{clarify|date=January 2025}}

He also wrote biographies of his friends [[Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)|Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr]] (''[[Hofmeyr (biography)|Hofmeyr]]''), and [[Geoffrey Hare Clayton|Geoffrey Clayton]] (''[[Apartheid and the Archbishop]]''). Another literary form that interested him throughout his life was poetry.<ref name=NYTimes/>