Word: ruark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HONEY BADGER by Robert Ruark. 569 pages. McGraw-Hill...
Author Robert Ruark (Something of Value, Uhuru) died last July at the age of 49, and in this big, brawling blatantly autobiographical novel, completed a few months before his death, he has composed his own obituary...
...name with a brace of bestsellers about Africa in transformation. The story of the hero's public life is superficial but exciting; the details of his private life are clinical and, with the hero-author parallel continually implied, embarrassing. As for the women in his life, Ruark compares them to the African honey badger, the meanest animal in the world: "It does not go for the jugular-it goes for the groin...
...makes Hemingway look like a boy scout, a backchat merchant who is "one of the funniest men alive," a "poontang kid" who is "really great in the sack," a friend of Toots Shor. He is, in fact, a man who has everything-including a couple of things Author Ruark wanted and never quite attained: a Pulitzer Prize and a civilized prose style...
Died. Robert Chester Ruark, 49, author and columnist, a North Carolina backwoods boy who began as a sportswriter for the Washington Daily News, in 1946 caught the eye of Scripps-Howard Boss Roy Howard and was given a daily (later thrice weekly) column eventually syndicated in 104 U.S. newspapers, in which he stated his tough-guy opinions on everything from women's fashions to modern art, reserving his most abrasive insights for Africa in two race-baiting bestsellers (Something of Value, Uhuru) about Kenya, from which he was then barred in 1962; of internal hemorrhages; in London...