Robert Ardrey(1908-1980)

Robert Ardrey was born on 16 October 1908 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Khartoum (1966), The Three Musketeers (1948) and Quentin Durward (1955). He was married to Berdine Grünewald and Helen Johnson. He died on 14 January 1980 in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Official site
- Official Site for The Robert Ardrey Estate
Height
- 5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
Born
- October 16, 1908
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
- January 14, 1980
- Cape Town, South Africa(lung cancer)
Spouses
Other works
Books: "African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man". New York: Atheneum. International bestseller. Called by The Nation: ""The most enjoyable and stimulating book on the evolution of man that has been published for some time."

Trivia
Playwright, screenwriter and author. Graduate from the University of Chicago, Guggenheim Fellow (1937-38), Sidney Howard Memorial Award winner and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Quotes
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.