Ben Erasmus

Since small, reading always inspired Erasmus to write, and music always made him want to write songs. When he was fifteen years old he wrote a book of over 100 pages about three friends crash-landing in a jungle and having to make their way home. The story involves a white man and a black man becoming blood-brothers. He still has it, and it is likely to remain the only copy in the world.

He loves wilderness survival stories. His present novel, 260 pages long, is an inspiring story about a little girl returning a caracal cub to a mountainous wilderness. She gets lost. Three boys go to look for her, followed by a muscular horse-trainer who is experienced in the ways of the wild, in a spectacular wilderness setting (which the author knows well).

Erasmus was in Mounted Infantry, and horses somehow work their way into most of his novels. He took up flying lessons for a while (inspired by the incomparable Biggles). There was hardly money for an occasional pie, so he gave up flying in favour of travelling for a bank.

He travelled extensively throughout South Africa, evaluating workloads at the branches. He was a branch administrator of two branches before leaving the bank to join a family business. He had a variety shop for ten years and a guest-house for six years. He loves being in small business.

He sold his house and guest-house business so that he could publish the books now on Amazon, and to have original songs recorded. 14 of his songs have now been sung and recorded as demonstrations, hopefully soon to be performed in the mainstream music industry.

Apart from the books now on Amazon, he has other novels in various stages of completion and will be publishing them in due course.

Erasmus was born in 1957 in the town of Welkom, South Africa, and grew up in Johannesburg. He presently lives in Mokopane, a large town the Limpopo Province.

He is divorced with two beautiful children (twins, a boy and a girl). He has travelled to Europe, Australia and the neighbouring countries of South Africa. He loves Africa, her people, nature and wildlife, and frequently camps in the Kruger National Park.