Donald McRae (born 1961) is a South African writer.
Born in
Germiston
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in 1961, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1984 to avoid military service in the Apartheid era South African Army.
McRae is noted as the only two-time winner of the
William Hill Sports Book of the Year
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Clarence Darrow
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: The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet'', published in 2009, '' A Man’s World: The Double Life of
Emile Griffith
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