Tony Voss

Tony Voss was born in Swakopmund in 1935. He was educated at St George’s
Grammar School, Cape Town; Rhodes University, Grahamstown; and the
University of Washington, Seattle. His interests were formed by his
southern African upbringing, his parents’ faith, and imagination – from
songs of the First World War and swing, to Yeats’s Oxford Book of Modern
Verse. “Like most Southern Africans,” he says, “I grew up in a
multilingual community and I appreciate, enjoy and admire other
languages, as they have been instrumental in my developing a sense of
the social answerability of any human activity.” He taught English in
universities until he retired from the service of the then University of
Natal in 1995. The Mushroom Summer of Skipper Darling is his first
book.