1. Robert Ruark was an American author, syndicated columnist, and big game hunter.
14 Facts About Robert Ruark
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Robert Ruark graduated early from New Hanover High School, and enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at age 15.
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Robert Ruark's studies included a few journalism classes but he did not gain a degree.
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Robert Ruark worked for two small town newspapers in North Carolina: the Hamlet News Messenger and, later, the Sanford Herald.
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In 1936, Robert Ruark moved to Washington, DC, and was hired as a copy boy for The Washington Daily News, a Scripps-Howard newspaper.
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In 1938, Robert Ruark married Virginia Webb, an interior designer from an upper-middle-class family in the Washington, DC, area, and a graduate of Georgetown University.
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Legendary Ker and Downey Safaris booked him with Harry Selby, and Robert Ruark began a love affair with Africa.
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At the time of Robert Ruark booking his safari, Kidogo had left Bowman and become a member of Selby's crew.
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Robert Ruark requested to hunt with whichever white hunter Kidogo was working for.
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The book apparently libeled a particular politician in Kenya, and while Robert Ruark was in Nairobi after its publication, staying at the New Stanley Hotel, he learned that a lawsuit had been filed against him by this politician.
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Robert Ruark had intended to write a final book in the series with the working title of "A Long View From a Tall Hill," but this never materialized.
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In 1960, after a bittersweet visit to his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina, Robert Ruark left the US for good.
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Robert Ruark lived in London and Barcelona, before settling in Sant Antoni de Calonge in Catalunya, Spain.
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Robert Ruark is buried in Palamos in the Province of Girona in Catalunya, Spain.