Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life

Stephen Gray is a novelist (John Ross: The True Story, 1987) and has published his Selected Poems (David Philip, 1994). For Penguin he has edited The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories (1985) and The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse (1989). He has contributed regularly to The London Magazine and, in Johannesburg where he lives, he reviews for the Mail & Guardian. In 2004, Penguin published Beatrice Hastings: A Literary Life. Gray is also the series editor for the South African Penguin Modern Classics series, which launched in 2005 with four titles: Mhudi Words in Season Circles in a Forest and Fiela’s Child. 2006 saw the release of six more Modern Classics: 117 Days, In Corner B, and Say A Little Mantra For Me in May, and Unconventional Reminiscences, Road to Ghana, and Requiem for Sophiatown in July.