Raised in Australia during the Great Depression, Beresford Gee left his position as a journalist with the Murdoch press to join the Australian Imperial Forces early in World War II. Six years later he enrolled in a course in psychology in Melbourne and after graduating was appointed as a lecturer. He later became the first Clinical Psychologist in a psychiatric hospital in Australia, but continued as a part-time lecturer in various universities in Australia and abroad for the next forty years.
During this period Gee wrote newspaper columns and articles in professional journals as well as publishing three books in his field. In 1970 he accept a position in a Hong Kong University. His marriage into a large and traditional Chinese family brought him into contact with Chinese culture, a subject central to his novel To Die in Darkness. Gee returned to Australia in the late 1990s to live in Brisbane.
(Adapted from the publisher's blurb)
