Errol Lincoln Uys

For the story of my ways and wanderings, see my website:

http://www.erroluys.com


Read two exclusive online literary archives:

BRAZIL: The Making of a Novel and

WORKING WITH JAMES A. MICHENER -- The Story of Michener's Secret Covenant.

I wrote the historical novel, BRAZIL. Of this work, one of Brazil's most distinguished critics said: "Uys is the first to write our national epic in all its decisive episodes. Descriptions like those of the war with Paraguay have no rival in our literature and evoke the great passages of War and Peace."

Said LE FIGARO, Paris: "Uys's characters are brilliant and colorful, combining elements of the best swashbuckler with those worthy of deepest reflection. Most stunning is that it took a South African now a naturalized American, to evoke so perfectly the grand but interrupted dream that is Brazil."

L'EXPRESS concurred: "A masterpiece! Brazil has the feel of an enchanted virgin forest, a totally new and original world for the reader-explorer to discover."

I've also written RIDING THE RAILS: TEENAGERS ON THE MOVE DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION(Routledge, 2003.)

The BOSTON GLOBE praised this work as "A riveting document of hope and hardship. The reader can all but hear the cadence of the trains on the tracks and the lonesome wail at every whistle-stop."

I've worked as a writer and editor on newspapers and magazines in the United States, England and Africa. I was editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest in South Africa and senior international editor with the U.S. edition.

Before writing BRAZIL, I spent two years with James A.Michener, working with him on his South African novel, The Covenant. My website archive tells the full story of this extraordinary collaboration, from the Assignment through Plotting and Research to the Final Manuscript.