Writing black
Rive, Richard![Writing black](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/177/17725768/CHSBZCOP0317725768.jpg)
The book describes the author's childhood in Cape Town's notorious slum, District Six, and then traces his academic and literary careers. The former gathered momentum after he won a competitive scholarship to high school at the age of thirteen and continued until he had earned degrees from the universities of Cape Town and Columbia.