Stephen Black
Stephen Black was a South African playwright and has been called "South Africa's first professional dramatist" Schooled in his twenties, Black earned money as a boxer and journalist before the success... Read more
Stephen Black was a South African playwright and has been called "South Africa's first professional dramatist" Schooled in his twenties, Black earned money as a boxer and journalist before the success of his satirical farce LOVE AND THE HYPHEN in 1928. For the next two decades, Black was a dramatist, actor, and manager for a theatre company which toured his plays through South Africa and Rhodesia, "from Wynberg to the Victoria Falls." Despite Black's popular commercial success, his plays were never published in his own lifetime. He published two novels under the pseudonym T. Werner Laurie.