E-mail us a comment on this writer. (Comments may be edited and used on this website.) About the author Tim Keegan was born in Cape Town in 1952. He matriculated at Bishops and then majored in history at the University of Cape Town. He obtained his PhD in African History from the University of London. After living and working in the UK and America he spent five years in the African Studies Institute at Wits University before going to the History Department at the University of the Western Cape. In the mid-nineties he left his post as an associate professor there to continue research and writing. He has published a long list of articles and reviews in academic journals and many chapters in academic publications. Around 2002 he began writing fiction, not very seriously at first, but with increasing enthusiasm and commitment. Tim Keegan’s published work includes:    •   Rural Transformations in Industrialising South Africa: The Southern Highveld to 1914. London & New York: Macmillan. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. 1987.    •   Facing the Storm: Portraits of Black Lives in Rural South Africa. Cape Town: David Philip. London: Zed Press. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 1988.    •   Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. Cape Town: David Philip. London: Leicester University Press. 1996.    •   Moravians in the Eastern Cape, 1828-1928. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series No. 35. 2004.    •   Waiting for the Moon: A novel . Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. 2005.    •   Tromp's Last Stand. Umuzi. 2007.    •   My Life with the Duvals. Umuzi. 2008. Tim Keegan says “I no longer regard myself as primarily an academic historian, having become quite jaundiced by the limitations and constraints of that sort of writing. I’ve been bitten by the creative-writing bug.” Watch Tim Keegan in the Umuzi New Talent Showcase video Watch Barry Ronge talking about Tim Keegan at the Umuzi New Talent Showcase home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za