Charles Rayne Kruger (29 January 1922 – 21 December 2002) was a South African author and property developer. Charles Rayne Kruger was born on 29 January 1922 in Queenstown, in the Eastern Cape, the son of an unmarried 17-year-old daughter of a British Army officer. As his father had disappeared, his mother married Victor Kruger, a Johannesburg estate agent. He was educated at Jeppe High School and the

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. Kruger's first wife was the actress Nan Munro, a widow, 16 years older than him, with three children. They later divorced, and he married the restaurateur, chef and television presenter

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. They had a son, the Conservative MP

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, and adopted a Cambodian daughter, Li-Da.

Publications

*''Tanker'' (Novel), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1952 *''The Spectacle'' (Crime story), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1953 *''Young Villain With Wings'' (Crime story), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1953 *''My Name Is Celia'' (Novel), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1954 *''The Even Keel'' (Crime story), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1955 *''Ferguson'' (Crime Story), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1956 *''Goodbye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer War.'' (Non fiction), London: Cassell, 1959 *''

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'' (Non fiction), London: Cassell, 1964 *''All Under Heaven: A Complete History of China.'' (Non fiction), Hoboken, New Jersey:

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, 2003

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kruger, Rayne 1922 births 2002 deaths South African writers University of the Witwatersrand alumni People from the Eastern Cape Kruger family