14 Facts About Mark Behr

Mark Behr was a Tanzanian-born writer who grew up in South Africa.

Mark Behr was professor of English literature and creative writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.

Mark Behr's father became a game ranger in the game parks of KwaZulu-Natal, where Mark Behr spent his early youth.

Between ages ten and twelve Mark Behr attended the Drakensberg Boys' Choir School, a private music academy in the Drakensberg Mountains of KwaZulu-Natal.

Mark Behr enrolled at the University of Notre Dame in the United States where he studied with Joseph Buttigieg, the translator of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.

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Mark Behr graduated from Notre Dame with Master's degrees in International Peace Studies in 1993, Fiction Writing in 1998, and English Literature in 2000.

Mark Behr's first published novel, The Smell of Apples, appeared first in Afrikaans in 1993.

In Spring 2007, the journal The Truth About the Fact published "People Like Us, " which is an extract from a lecture Mark Behr gave at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada in 2003.

In Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everyone Must Read, Mark Behr looks at the impact of Alice Walker's The Color Purple on his own political and psychological development.

Mark Behr died on 27 November 2015 in Johannesburg after a suspected heart attack.

Mark Behr has written of the early influence of The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

Mark Behr's work is often concerned with issues of violence, racism, nationalism, militarisation, masculinity and colonialism.

Mark Behr's work is extensively translated and has received awards from the Los Angeles Times, the United Kingdom British Society of Authors, and the Academy of Science of South Africa.

Mark Behr travelled regularly between the United States and South Africa.