Rose Moss

Rose Rappoport Moss is an American writer born in South Africa. She has published novels, short stories, words for music and nonfiction.

Moss was born in Johannesburg, and has lived in the United States since 1964.

In Court, a collection of her short stories, appeared as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2007. She has published two novels, The Family Reunion (1974), short-listed for a National Book Award, and The Terrorist (1979, published as The Schoolmaster in South Africa in 1981). A non-fiction book, Shouting at the Crocodile (1990) presents two defendants, Popo Molefe and Mosiuoa Lekota, in the Delmas Treason Trial during the last days of apartheid. In 2008, Lekota became a prime mover of a new political party in South Africa, the Congress of the People, COPE.