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Behr, Mark

LC control no.n 95049652
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPT6592.12.E37
Personal name headingBehr, Mark
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Variant(s)בר, מרק
Associated placeMemphis (Tenn.)
Birth date1963-10-19
Death date2015-11-27
Place of birthTanzania
Place of deathJohannesburg (South Africa)
Profession or occupationAuthors College teachers
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Found inThe smell of apples, 1995: CIP t.p. (Mark Behr) galley (educated in South Africa and the U.S.; teaches English at Vista U. in Johannesburg, where he lives)
Embrace, 2000: t.p. (Mark Behr) jkt. (b. 1963 in Tanzania; as a child moved to South Africa with his parents)
Wikipedia website, November 30, 2015 (Mark Behr (19 October 1963-27 November 2015) was a Tanzanian born writer who grew up in South Africa. He was professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He also taught in the MA program at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published novels, short stories and essays)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Behr>
Bookslive, November 30, 2015 (Author Mark Behr has passed away in Johannesburg, at the age of 52. Behr did his undergraduate and honours degrees at Stellenbosch University in the late 1980s, and three MA degrees at University of Notre Dame in the United States, finishing the last in 2000. He worked at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico, and at the time of his death was Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee)
   <http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2015/11/28/rip-mark-behr-1963-2015/>
Associated languageafr eng