Biographies
Roberts has written books on the lives of South African President Thabo Mbeki, Nobel Prize in literature winner Nadine Gordimer, and American jurist Clarence Thomas. He writes columns for Empire magazine and the website thoughtleader.co.za, and is a regular letter writer and guest columnist for several South African newspapers.
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