Ruark, Jr., Robert Chester
Class of 1927Born December 29, 1915 attend New Hanover High School.
Ruark graduated from high school at age 12 entering the University of North Carolina at 15 earning a journalism degree.
After serving in WWII as a gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys, he joined the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance. Some of his columns were eventually collected into two books. He began writing for Field & Stream magazine entitled “The Old Man and the Boy”.
Ruark’s first bestselling novel entitled Something of Value was about the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. Known as the poor mans Hemingway, Ruark produced some of the bet portraiture in words of hunting, fishing and life in the field..
His novels were Grenadine Etching, Grenadine’s Spawn, Poor No More, The Honey Badger, and Women,. Three of his eight non-fictions were I Didn’t Know It Was Loaded, One for the Road and Horn of the Hunter.