The Angels of Zimbabwe

Peter de Lissovoy attended Harvard University and spent fifteen months in Africa working as a reporter in Rhodesia and teaching with a Harvard project in Tanzania. In Rhodesia, he joined the youth wing of the Zimbabwe African National Union, out of which experience came the novel Angels of Zimbabwe. He was expelled from South Africa for interviewing banned ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli, and having to flee southern Africa, he hitch-hiked from Cape Town to Cairo. In the US, he was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was jailed several times in southwest Georgia, where he lived for two years during the Civil Rights Movement and wrote Feelgood: A Trip in Time and Out, a novel about the Civil Rights Movement and life and work on the black side of a small Georgia town. He is coauthor and editor of The Great Pool Jump, a nonfiction collection of reminiscences about the Civil Rights Movement. De Lissovoy has taught English and writing at Harvard University Extension School and lives in northern New Hampshire with his wife, dogs, and horses.