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 Robert Chester Ruark Jr. was an American author and syndicated columnist who lived through the years 1915 – 1965.
Ruark was born to Robert C. Ruark, a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery, and Charlotte A. Ruark. At the age of twelve he graduated from New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina and three years later entered the University of North Carolina.
Despite the Ruark family being heavily affected by the Depression Robert earned himself a journalism degree and later worked an accounting job (from which he was fired) in the Works Progress Administration.
Whilst in North Carolina Ruark was employed by two newspapers, the Hamlet News Messenger and later the Sanford Herald, but in 1936 he moved to Washington D.C. where he became a copy boy for The Washington Daily News and soon thereafter became the newspaper’s top sports reporter.
Of Ruark the New York Times said he was “sometimes glad, sometimes sad, and often mad - but almost always provocative.”
As his career progressed Ruark began writing fiction, initially for literary magazines but later producing novels, the first of which was entitled: Grenade Etching (1974).
The first novel Ruark produced to become a bestseller was Something of Value (1955), a book centering around the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya against British rule. This book was also adapted into a film of the same name.
After Something of Value came a novel called Uhuru (1962), which, while containing the same theme as the previous novel, was not intended to be its sequel.
He wrote another book entitled Horn of the Hunter (1953) which detailed his experiences on an African safari.
Ruark died in London, England on July 1, 1965. It is speculated that the cause of his death was alcoholism. [edit]
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