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New biography uncovers famous author's life
On my 13th birthday, my father gave me a book that changed my life. The author was Robert Ruark, whose death had occurred less than one year before in 1965.
Yet the words of the "Old Man's Boy" molded a mind, sparking previously unimagined adventures for a kid living in the caretaker's cabin of the old J.P.
Morgan hunting lodge in Climax, N.C.
That was the day I knew I wanted to become an outdoor writer. I could not have known a chance hand of fate would send me to fish the same waters, hunt the same marshes and write for the same newspapers where Robert Ruark transformed himself from a boy wallowing in such poverty his father sold his son's hunting dogs and shotgun to pay his debts to being "Poor No More."
It's unfathomable how any local sportsman or literary buffs could not know who Robert Ruark was.
His star is on the Wilmington Walk of Fame. His book "Something of Value" was made into a blockbuster movie starring Rock Hudson and