Suicide Made Easy

In 1953, FIELD & STREAM hired Robert Ruark to write a monthly column called “The Old Man and the Boy.” The column ran for nine years and is still being reprinted in book form 67 years later. Ruark, who went on to become a major novelist with Something of Value and Uhuru, drank himself to death in 1965, having not reached 50.

He made his first safari in 1951, and out of it came what is the best book on African hunting that has ever been written, Horn of the Hunter, as well as magazine articles such as this one.

Unlike previous stories in this genre, which are