Ronald Suresh Roberts, a graduate of Balliol College Oxford and Harvard Law School, was born in London while his West Indian and Indo---Malaysian parents were studying there. He grew up in Trinidad, worked in New York and then arrived in Johannesburg in 1994 as the coordinator of an international election monitoring delegation. He is author of Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd (1995) and co---author of Reconciliation Through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid's Criminal Governance (1997). In December 2005 he published No Cold Kitchen - a Biography of Nadine Gordimer with STE Publishers. Roberts resides in Cape Town.