Author
Nelson Mandela
Statesman and First President of Democratic South Africa
Nelson Mandela (1918 to 2013) was the South African anti-apartheid leader who spent twenty-seven years in prison, emerged to negotiate the end of white minority rule, and became the country’s first democratically elected president in 1994. His autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, much of it drafted secretly on Robben Island, is one of the defining political memoirs of the twentieth century. The books that followed, drawn from his letters, notebooks and conversations, deepen the portrait of a man who chose reconciliation over revenge.
