Author Profile: Johnny Steinberg

History

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Jonny Steinberg was born and bred in South Africa. he is the author of the critically acclaimed Three-Letter Plague as well as Midlands and The Number, which both won South Africa’s premier non-fiction prize, the Sunday Times Alan Paton award.

Steinberg was educated at University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He currently works at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (Huma) at the University of Cape Town. ^[1]

Bibliography

• Midlands (2002)
• The Number: One Man’s Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs (2004)
• Notes from a Fractured Country (2007)
• Sizwe’s Test (2008)
• Thin Blue (2008)
• Three-Letter Plague (2008)
• Little Liberia (2011)

References

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1. Johnny Steinberg, Jonathan Ball Publishers. Accessed 8 January 2013.
Image Courtesy of Jonathan Ball Publishers