Melanie SteynMelanie Susan Steyn was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1945. Her mother was an actress until she married, and her father was a politician who later became South Africa's ambassador to the United Kingdom during the apartheid era. She grew up wthin the dichotomy of a loving family and the detestable system, which she argued and battled against. She mostly chose to teach English to people of color, avoiding the comfortable white club offered by the system of job reservation. Melanie wrote plays for community theater and a youth novel, Theo and Blikskottel. Melanie came to Korea in 2002 and now teaches in the Department of English Education at Suncheon National University. Her eldest son is also teaching English in the South Jeolla Province, and she has two sons in Cape Town. Read More Read Less