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Donald McRae

Born

in South Africa

April 19, 1961

Website

http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/donald-mcrae/

Genre

Sports, Nonfiction, Social Sciences

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Donald McRae was born near Johannesburg in South Africa in 1961 and has been based in London since 1984.

He is the award-winning author of six non-fiction books which have featured legendary trial lawyers, heart surgeons and sporting icons. He is the only two-time winner of the UK’s prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year – an award won in the past by Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch and Laura Hillenbrand’s Sea Biscuit. As a journalist he has won the UK’s Sports Feature Writer of The Year – and was runner up in the 2008 UK Sports Writer of the Year – for his work in the Guardian.

Donald lived under apartheid for the first twenty-three years of his life. The impact of that experience has shaped much of his non-fiction writing. At the age o ...more

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Average rating: 4.26 · 2,464 ratings · 262 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing 4.48 avg rating — 604 ratings — published 1997 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Sunshine or in Shadow 4.55 avg rating — 390 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart 4.21 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Man's World: The Double Life of Emile Griffith 4.39 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under Our Skin: A White Family's Journey through S 4.21 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing 4.41 avg rating — 104 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Colours: Changing Seasons in World Rugby 4.14 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow: An Intimate Portrait of the Leopold & Loeb, Scopes, and Sweet Cases 3.97 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow: The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet 3.78 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Devil: Clarence Darrow: The World's Greatest Trial Lawyer 4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Niki blurted out the news. “Some joker in Africa has done a heart transplant!” “Jesus . . .” Kantrowitz groaned. He knew who had beaten him. “Barnard!”
― Donald McRae, Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart

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“Barnard suddenly realized, with gloomy introspection, that “I had the legal system of the United States to thank for the honor of being the first surgeon in the world to have done a heart transplant.”
― Donald McRae, Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart

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