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Robert Ruark began his career in 1935 , graduating from the University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism, and working at the '' Hamlet News Messenger '' and later the '' Sanford Herald '' in North Carolina . Ruark then worked as an accountant, and later an officer in the United States Navy . Upon his return, he became a syndicated columnist. Some of his musings were eventually collected into two books, 1948 's ''I Didn't Know It Was Loaded'' and 1949 's ''One for the Road''. As he grew in notoriety, Ruark began to write fiction; first for literary magazines, and then his first novel, ''Grenadine Etching'' in 1947 . The novel parodied the popular historical romances of time and set the stage for his many humorous novels and articles published in the '' Saturday Evening Post '', '' Esquire '', and other popular publications. Ruark's first bestselling novel came in 1955 's ''Something of Value'', about the Mau Mau Uprising . The novel drew from the author's own experiences on safari in Africa and was adapted into a successful 1957 film. Thanks to the novel's success, Ruark began working as a series of documentary shorts for RKO Pictures about his adventures in Africa. His most well known novel is "Uhuru". He continued to write, though few of his subsequent novels surpassed his first success. Ruark moved to Spain in 1960 , and died five years later in London, England . BIBLIOGRAPHY
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