Background
Robert Ruark was born in Southport, N. C. , the son of Robert Chester Ruark, Sr. , a bookkeeper, and of Charlotte Adkins, a teacher. While he was still a child the family moved about twenty-five miles north to Wilmington, N. C.
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The heartwarming sequel to the best-selling The Old Man and the Boy is a moving, nostalgic tale that will transport the reader back to a time when going fishing was not about fish, but the stories told afterward.
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(These are previously uncollected works of Robert Ruark, e...)
These are previously uncollected works of Robert Ruark, edited by Michael Mcintosh. Ruark's tales of African hunting not only explore the animals and their habits, but also why people hunt dangerous game.
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(The story of the author and his wife's two-month safari i...)
The story of the author and his wife's two-month safari in East Africa in the 1950s. Ruark's philosophies are intertwined in the hunting stories to make unforgettable reading.
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This classic captures the endearing relationship between a man and his grandson as they fish and hunt the lakes and woods of North Carolina. All the while the Old Man acts as teacher and guide, passing on his wisdom and life experiences to the boy, who listens in rapt fascination.
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(A collection of magazine stories that Ruark wrote in the ...)
A collection of magazine stories that Ruark wrote in the 1950s and 1960s, but were never published in book form.
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1955. Hardbound, 8.5 inches tall, 566 pages. Glossary. Something of Value is a novel based on events that took place in Kenya Colony during the violent Mau Mau insurrection of the 1950s, an uprising that was confined almost exclusively to members of the Kikuyu tribe. It is a powerful, gripping, and sometimes shocking novel that presents an enlightening glimpse into the lives of all sections of the population in Colonial Kenya fifty years ago.
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(Hunting big game)
Hunting big game
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Robert Ruark was born in Southport, N. C. , the son of Robert Chester Ruark, Sr. , a bookkeeper, and of Charlotte Adkins, a teacher. While he was still a child the family moved about twenty-five miles north to Wilmington, N. C.
He completed high school at the age of fifteen. He studied at the University of North Carolina. He majored in journalism and graduated in 1935 with a B. A.
But it was in Southport, a small fishing village, that Ruark spent all the time he could with his grandfather Adkins, a retired sea captain. Adkins is affectionately portrayed as the "Old Man" in Ruark's autobiographical novels, The Old Man and the Boy (1957) and The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1961). In the "Author's Note" to The Old Man and the Boy Ruark sums up his youth: "Anybody who reads this book is bound to realize that I had a real fine time as a kid. " The Old Man's Boy Grows Older starts with the Old Man's funeral in 1931, when Ruark was about to go to college: "It suddenly occurred to me that I was educated by the Old Man before I saw a college. I made up my mind right then that someday I would learn to be a writer and write some of the stuff the Old Man had taught me. "
While studying at the University of North Carolina, he also wrote for the Yackety Yack and did artwork for the Carolina Magazine and the Buccaneer. He then worked as a reporter-editor-subscription seller of the Hamlet (N. C. ) News-Messenger at a salary of ten dollars per week. In 1936 he shipped as an ordinary merchant seaman on the Sundance sailing from Savannah to Liverpool and Hamburg. (He had also been an accountant for the WPA. ) In 1937 he moved to Washington, D. C. , where he became a copyboy for the Daily News.
At the Daily News Ruark rose from copyboy to sportswriter to newswriter to top feature writer and by 1942 to assistant city editor. In 1942 Ruark became Washington correspondent for the Newspaper Enterprise Association Service. From 1942 to 1945 he served as an ensign with the navy and for a while was a gunnery officer with Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys. He later saw duty in the Pacific and nearly lost an arm when his jeep overturned in the Solomons. When he recovered, he returned to duty as a press censor.
In 1945 he became the Washington correspondent for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, and the following year he became a columnist for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers and United Feature Service in New York. He also wrote articles and a column for Field and Stream magazine. In 1947 Ruark went to Italy to report on the "sad state" of military personnel there. In the same year his first book, Grenadine Etching, appeared.
Ruark was now earning $40, 000 a year and living the high life in New York. But he "felt like a complete fraud. " In 1950, emulating his hero Ernest Hemingway, he went to East Africa as a hunter. Two of his novels were Book-of-the-Month Club selections: Something of Value (1955), on the Mau Mau, and Uhuru (1962), both of which resulted from his experiences there. After 1952 Ruark lived in Spain, England, and Africa. (He said he particularly disliked life in New York. ) He made his main home in Palamos, Spain, and had a penthouse in London. On Apr. 30, 1965, Ruark discontinued his United Feature Syndicate column. He died in London.
( The heartwarming sequel to the best-selling The Old Man...)
( This classic captures the endearing relationship betwee...)
(A collection of magazine stories that Ruark wrote in the ...)
(The story of the author and his wife's two-month safari i...)
(These are previously uncollected works of Robert Ruark, e...)
(Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1955. Hardbou...)
(A dog eat dog story of a man who made millions.)
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(Hunting big game)
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Quotes from others about the person
Ernest Havemann identifies one experience as crucial to his rise: "On Pearl Harbor Day, when Ruark was 25, he was sitting in the press box covering the Washington Redskins. . His office gave him the job of rounding up all the editors, reporters and linotype men who were watching the game. . He managed to flush out a crew, rushed back to the office to help get out an extra and went to bed two and one-half days later. . He was brash, ambitious, cocky, fast and good. "
Ruark married Virginia Webb on August 12, 1938. They had no children. He and his wife were divorced a few years before his death.