Bryce courtenay author biography

South African–Australian writer

Arthur Bryce Courtenay, AM (14 August 1933 – 22 November 2012) was a South African-Australian advertising director and novelist.

Bryce courtenay author biography

He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One.

Background and early years

Arthur Bryce Courtenay was born in the Lebombo Mountains in what was then the Union of South Africa, the son of Maude Greer and Arthur Ryder.

Ryder was married with six children, and lived with his family, but also maintained a relationship with Greer, with whom he already had a daughter, Rosemary. Maude Greer gave the surname Courtenay to both her children.^[2] Bryce Courtenay spent most of his early years in a small village in the Lebombo Mountains in the Limpopo province.

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He later attended King Edward VII School in Johannesburg.

In 1955, while studying journalism in London, Courtenay met Benita Solomon. They emigrated to Sydney in 1958, married in 1959 and had three sons&