Richard Moore Rive (1930-1989) was a writer, scholar, literary
critic and college teacher in Cape Town, South Africa. He is best
known for his short stories written in the late 1950s and for his
second novel, 'Buckingham Palace', District Six, in which he
depicted the well-known cosmopolitan area of District Six, where he
grew up. In this biography Shaun Viljoen, a former colleague of
Rive's, creates the composite qualities of a man who was committed
to the struggle against racial oppression and to the ideals of
non-racialism but was also variously described as irascible,
pompous and arrogant, with a 'cultivated urbanity'. Beneath these
public personae lurked a constant and troubled awareness of his
dark skin colour and guardedness about his homosexuality. Using his
own and others' memories, and drawing on Rive's fiction, Viljoen
brings the author to life with sensitivity and empathy. The
biography follows Rive from his early years in the 1950s, writing
for Drum magazine and spending time in the company of great
anti-establishment writers such as Jack Cope, Ingrid Jonker, Jan
Rabie, Marjorie Wallace, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer, to
his acceptance at Magdalene College, Oxford, where he completed his
doctorate on Olive Schreiner, before returning to South Africa to
resume his position as senior lecturer at Hewat College of
Education. This biography will resurface Richard Rive the man and
the writer, and invite us to think anew about how we read writers
who lived and worked during the years of apartheid.
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