sentences:  Becker says in book jacket biographies that she was "undereducated" at Roedean School in Johannesburg.At the age of 14 she won first prize in a national essay competition on the evils of race-discrimination set by the (anti-apartheid) Institute of Race Relations.She graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand where she made a lifelong platonic friendship with the scientist, Lewis Wolpert.