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Bryce Courtenay, AM (14 August 193322 November 2012) was a South African novelist who also held Australian citizenship. 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, 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. Bryce Courtenay spent most of his early years in a small village in the Lebombo Mountains in the Limpopo province. He later attended King Edward VII School. In 1955, while studying journalism in London, Courtenay met his future wife, Benita Solomon, and they emigrated to Sydney in 1958. They married in 1959 and had three sons – Brett, Adam and Damon. Courtenay entered the advertising industry and, over a career spanning 34 years, was the Creative Director of McCann Erickson, J. Walter Thompson and George Patterson Advertising. His award-winning campaigns included ''Louie the Fly'' and the original ''Milkybar Kid'' commercial. Along with Geoff Pike, Bryce Courtney invented the (Cadbury Yowie ), a chocolate that contained a children's toy, typically an Australian or New Zealand native animal. On 1 April 1991, Damon (who was born with the blood condition haemophilia) died at age 24 from AIDS-related complications, contracted through a blood transfusion. Courtenay divorced Benita in 2000 and acknowledged some indiscretions during their 42-year marriage. Benita Courtenay died on 11 March 2007, at the age of 72, four months after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. He later lived in Canberra with his second wife, Christine Gee. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bryce Courtenay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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