Tanzanian-born writer (1963–2015)
Mark Behr was a South African writer. He is best known for his three novels, The Smell of Apples (1995), Embrace (2000), and Kings of the Water (2009), but he also wrote many short stories and essays. He was a professor of English literature and creative writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, and also taught in the MA program at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.