Alan Scholefield

Alan Scholefield (15 January 1931 – 26 October 2017) was a South African writer famous for his Macrae and Silver series.

Scholefield was one of a group of journalists and writers who left South Africa in the sixties to escape the rigid apartheid of the Prime Minister, Dr. Verwoerd.

In addition to his novels, Scholefield has written a non-fiction history of three African monarchies, The Dark Kingdoms.

In the late 1960s his book Great Elephant was optioned by the American producer Jud Kinberg and sold on to CBS New York for which Scholefield did the first and second draft screenplays.

In 1981 Scholefield's novel Venom was made into a film starring Klaus Kinski, Nicol Williamson and Oliver Reed.