# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-behr
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:26.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-behr"
name: "Mark Behr"
slug: "mark-behr"
description: "Mark Behr 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."
tagline: "Author (1963–2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-10-19"
deathDate: "2015-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.5
  momentum:             6
  historical:           7.00648
  currentAttention:     33.33333333333333
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Марк Бер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Behr"
    title: "Mark Behr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "مارك بير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "مارك بير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Behr"
    title: "Mark Behr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Behr"
    title: "Mark Behr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Behr"
    title: "Mark Behr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Behr"
    title: "Mark Behr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump