Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith was born on 9 January 1933 in Ndola, in Northern Rhodesia, the son of a metalworker turned rancher on a ranch near Mazabuka, on the banks of the Kafue. A pupil at a boarding school in Natal and a commerce graduate of Rhodes University, he was an accountant and tax official in Salisbury before living by his pen. The author of forty-nine books sold in more than a hundred and forty million copies, he lived between London, Cape Town, Switzerland and Malta, and died in Cape Town in November 2021.

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• NovelWhen the Lion FeedsWilbur Smith · 1964Literature