Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
De Beer, Mona Vida
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Mona Glasser
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1928-2001
History
Mona de Beer (born Schwartz) was born in 1928 in the Transvaal. She married Zach de Beer, who became the leader of the Democratic Party. She contributed to and edited various magazines. She wrote several books: King Kong – A venture in the theatre (1960), Lion Mountain (1987), Who did what in South Africa (1988) as well as A vision of the past – South Africa in photographs, 1843-1910 (1992), which she co-wrote with Brian Johnson Barker. Unpuzzled: a crossword dictionary (2003) was published posthumously.