"detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014 his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy. Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). His father was a metal worker who opened a sheet metal factory and then bought a cattle ranch. ""My father was a tough man"", said Smith. ""He was used to working with his hands and had massively developed arms from cutting metal. He was a boxer, a hunter, very"
"Wilbur Smith Wilbur Addison Smith (born 9 January 1933) is a Zambian novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families. An accountant by training, he gained a film contract with his first published novel ""When the Lion Feeds"". This encouraged him to become a full-time writer, and he developed three long chronicles of the South African experience which all became best-sellers. He still acknowledges his publisher Charles Pick's advice to ""write about what you know best"", and his work takes in much authentic"
"screenplay when my novels were turned into films. Now I tell the producer and director that they either use my screenplay or else there is no movie. That saves a lot of time."" Wilbur Smith Wilbur Addison Smith (born 9 January 1933) is a Zambian novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families. An accountant by training, he gained a film contract with his first published novel ""When the Lion Feeds"". This encouraged him to become a full-time writer, and he developed three"
"include ""A voice from God, A Watchman on the Wall"", "" Egypt in Biblical Prophecy"" and ""The Supernaturalness of Christ"". His most important work is ""Therefore Stand"", a book on Christian apologetics . In 1971 he received an honorary doctorate (Litt.D.) from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, at which he was a professor in Biblical Studies. Wilbur M. Smith Wilbur Moorehead Smith (1894 - 1976) was an American theologian and one of the founding members of Fuller Theological Seminary. Smith was born in Chicago on June 8, 1894. His father, Thomas Smith, was a successful fruit trader. His mother, Sadie Sanborn"
"Wilbur M. Smith Wilbur Moorehead Smith (1894 - 1976) was an American theologian and one of the founding members of Fuller Theological Seminary. Smith was born in Chicago on June 8, 1894. His father, Thomas Smith, was a successful fruit trader. His mother, Sadie Sanborn Smith, read a lot and had a large library. Her father was a follower of the famous evangelist R. A. Torrey. She taught her son to read when he was five. He developed a love of books that remained with him throughout his whole life. He owned more than 25,000 books. After High School, he"
"all the way up until the early 1990s"". Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of African-American descent. After 1951, he maintained an expatriate status in France. However, due to his various journalistic and editorial assignments, he also lived for extended periods of time in Ghana, West Africa. In the final decade of his life, he would travel to the United States to visit family and friends and write about the racial and social upheaval that was occurring there. Some of Smith's journalism and reportage from this period was published in various media outlets in France and Europe. Some of it"
"II of England, and becoming the guiding document of Rhode Island's government for nearly two centuries. Baptized in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England on 10 April 1622, Samuel Wilbur Jr. was the oldest of five children born to Samuel Wilbore and Ann Smith. As a youngster, Wilbur and his two surviving brothers, Joseph and Shadrach, sailed to New England with their parents, settling in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where his father was made a freeman in March 1633. The Wilbur's stay in Boston lasted only a few years, because Wilbur's father became a supporter of the dissident ministers Anne"
"The Quest (novel) The Quest is a novel by author Wilbur Smith first published in 2007. It is part of a series of novels by Smith set to Ancient Egypt and follows the fate of the Egyptian Kingdom through the eyes of Taita, a multi-talented and highly skilled eunuch slave. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa, from where the mighty"
"for grisly deaths and mutilations."" The Quest (novel) The Quest is a novel by author Wilbur Smith first published in 2007. It is part of a series of novels by Smith set to Ancient Egypt and follows the fate of the Egyptian Kingdom through the eyes of Taita, a multi-talented and highly skilled eunuch slave. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of"
"of his work, including: Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of his generation, Wilbur's work, composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance. In 1987 he was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in 1957 and again in 1989. Wilbur was born in New York City March 1, 1921, and grew up in North Caldwell, New Jersey. In 1938 he"
"the country owned by a person of African descent using steam presses. After his appointment as Bishop, Smith traveled widely and was assigned conferences in Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, and several in the United States. Upon retiring from conference work, he became the historian of the AME Church and wrote at least two books. Charles Spencer Smith was born on 16 March 1852 in Colborne, Canada to Catherine and Nehemiah Henry Smith. He grew up in Bowmanville and attended public schooling there until aged twelve. Apprenticed to learn furniture finishing, he lost his apprenticeship when the factory in which he"
"Vivian Smith (poet) Vivian Brian Smith (born 3 June 1933) is an Australian poet. He is considered one of the most lyrical and observant Australian poets of his generation. Smith was born in Hobart, Tasmania and studied French at the University of Tasmania from which he graduated with a Master of Arts. He left Tasmania in the late 1950s and has lived since then in Sydney, where he was a longtime professor at the University of Sydney until his retirement in the early 2000s. He returns to Tasmania every year and his poetry is still influenced by the landscape there."
"Dick Kimber Richard “Dick” Glyn Kimber AM (born 1939) is an Australian historian and author who has written extensively on the history, art, culture and wildlife of Central Australia. He has published several books, the best known of which is ""Man From Arltunga: Walter Smith, Australian Bushman"" as well as more than 100 articles and essays. Kimber was born at Freeling in South Australia in 1939. He went to school in the Riverland area and Brighton and then attended Adelaide University and Adelaide Teacher’s College. Throughout Kimber’s adult life, his focus has been on historical research, Aboriginal art and culture,"
"John Smith (missionary) John Smith (1790–1824) was a missionary whose experiences in the West Indies attracted the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce. As a result of his actions, trial by court martial and subsequent death whilst under imprisonment, Smith became known as the ""Demerara Martyr"". His case, and news of the enormous size of the uprising and the brutal loss of African life, caused a great awakening in England, strengthening the abolitionist cause which eventually succeeded in British territories worldwide in 1838. Smith was born an orphan on 27 June 1790 in Northamptonshire. He received his early education"
"Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Libertarian Futurist Society. Smith was born in Denver, Colorado on May 12, 1946. His father was an Air Force officer, and his childhood was spent in various places including Waco, McQueenie, and La Porte, Texas; Salina, Kansas; Sacramento, California; and Gifford, Illinois (all before he completed fifth grade) and then St. John's, Newfoundland and Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, where he graduated from high school. Several of his works constitute the North American Confederacy series: Three novels constitute the Lando Calrissian (Star Wars) series. The novels are set in the ""Star Wars"" expanded universe, between"
"Warlock (Smith novel) Warlock is a novel by author Wilbur Smith first published in 2001. It is part of a series of novels by Smith set to Ancient Egypt and follows the fate of the Egyptian Kingdom through the eyes of Taita, a multi-talented and highly skilled eunuch slave. Warlock is a sequel to River God that details the later life of Taita 40 years on from the death of Lostris. Taita is no longer a slave but a powerful warlock with great fame throughout Egypt and the surrounding nations, and has become the most influential man in Egypt through"
"January 1910, in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, the son of a tailor. Smith emigrated to Rhodesia at age 25, intending to join the police force. Instead, he became a successful farmer, and was later elected chairman of the Rhodesian Farmers' Association. Smith was elected to the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly in the 1950s as a member of the United Federal Party, and was known as a moderate MP. He opposed the 1961 Constitution and its creation of separate voting rolls for blacks and whites. He favored a common roll system that would afford educated, middle class black Rhodesians a"
"Venture Smith Venture Smith (Birth name: Broteer) (c. 1729 – 1805) was captured when he was a 6 and a half-year-old boy in West Africa and was taken to Anomabo on the Gold Coast (today Ghana) to be sold as a slave. As an adult in Rhode Island (Connecticut), he purchased his freedom and that of his family. He documented his life in ""A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself"". This autobiography is one of the earliest known example of"
"church and kingdom."" All churches and their professors were ""corrupt"", and ""all their creeds were an abomination in his sight."" Smith was told not to join any of the churches, but that the ""fulness of the gospel"" would be made known to him at a later time. After the vision withdrew, Smith said he ""came to myself"" and found himself sprawled on his back. Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Vermont, and around 1816 or 1817, his family moved to a farm just outside the town of Palmyra, New York. Like many other Americans living on the frontier"
"the following September. His will distributed to his three sons all his land holdings in Boston, Taunton, and Portsmouth. Most of his Rhode Island descendants spell their name Wilbur. Samuel Wilbore was born around 1595, the son of Nicholas Wilbore of Braintree and Sible Hedingham, both in Essex, England. Wilbore married Ann Smith in January 1620 in Sible Hedingham, and all five of their children were baptized there between 1622 and 1631, but their sons Arthur and William died in infancy in England. The couple sailed to New England around 1633 with their surviving sons Samuel, Joseph, and Shadrach. The"
"poet (unpublished) and short story writer (unpublished) on a variety of topics. Whitbread First Novel Award 2001 - ""Something Like a House"" James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2001 - ""Something Like a House"" Encore Award Nominee 2004 - ""A House by the River"" Sid Smith (writer) Sid Smith (born c. 1949) is an award-winning English novelist poet and journalist. Smith was born in Preston, Lancashire. For seven years he worked in labouring jobs, including dustman, gardner, gravedigger and construction worker. Since then he has hitch-hiked 9,000 miles around the US, lived in Italy and Greece, acquired a pilot's licence for"
"Sid Smith (writer) Sid Smith (born c. 1949) is an award-winning English novelist poet and journalist. Smith was born in Preston, Lancashire. For seven years he worked in labouring jobs, including dustman, gardner, gravedigger and construction worker. Since then he has hitch-hiked 9,000 miles around the US, lived in Italy and Greece, acquired a pilot's licence for paragliders. Smith came late to literary prominence. He had been a journalist for 17 years, including two years as a sub-editor on ""The Times"", and was already in his 50s when his debut novel ""Something Like A House"" was published in 2001. The"
"It would eventually span the globe. This utopia also incorporated sex equality, eugenics (only the first class citizens should breed), the adoption of a universal language, pricing according to the labor theory of value, and communal ownership of property. John Brown Smith John Brown Smith (30 October 1837–?) was an American doctor, author, mutualist anarchist theorist, tax resister, and developer of shorthand. Smith was born in Canada and moved to Minnesota at age 17. In August 1862 he enlisted in a company of the 10th Minnesota and served through the American Civil War, being mustered out in July 1865. After"
"in Canada. In the 1920's Smiths parents went to work in Sinai desert. His father initially worked as a mining engineer, before securing a position as the director of a Manganese mine. The family remained in the Sinai desert until the end of World War II, except for occasional periods of leave. In one such period, Smith was born, and lived in the Sinai desert until he was five, when he returned to the UK to live with his grandparents and an aunt. Smiths early education was at Colston's School, Bristol. When his parents returned to the UK to live"
"Wilfred Talbot Smith Wilfred Talbot Smith (born Frank Wenham; 8 June 1885 – 27 April 1957) was an English occultist and ceremonial magician known as a prominent advocate of the religion of Thelema. Living most of his life in North America, he played a key role in propagating Thelema across the continent. Born the illegitimate son of a domestic servant and her employer in Tonbridge, Kent, Smith migrated to Canada in 1907, where he went through a variety of jobs and began reading about Western esotericism. Through Charles Stansfeld Jones he was introduced to the writings of Thelema's founder, Aleister"
"of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation."" Smith was born January 13, 1893, in Long Valley, California, of English and New England parentage. He spent most of his life in the small town of Auburn, California, living in a small cabin built by his parents, Fanny and Timeus Smith. His formal education was limited: he suffered from psychological disorders including a fear of crowds, and although admitted to high school after attending eight"
"Michael Smith (writer) Michael Smith (born 1976 in London) is an English writer, broadcaster and film-maker. He was brought up in Hartlepool, County Durham and graduated from University College London. His best-known work is ""The Giro Playboy"". He began writing by producing a series of pamphlets which became collectors' items and which he worked up into ""The Giro Playboy"" (Faber and Faber, 2006). ""Shorty Loves Wing Wong"" (Faber and Faber, 2007), a prequel to ""The Giro Playboy"", incorporating art by Jim Medway, was the follow-up. Both Faber books were preceded by collectable limited editions, published by Simon Finch and To"
"and later reads it to her husband. Smith was featured in the 1996 PBS television documentary series ""Africans in America "" and was the subject of a 2006 USA Today newspaper story. Russell Shorto's 2017 book, ""Revolution Song"" contains a chapter detailing Smith's life story. Venture Smith Venture Smith (Birth name: Broteer) (c. 1729 – 1805) was captured when he was a 6 and a half-year-old boy in West Africa and was taken to Anomabo on the Gold Coast (today Ghana) to be sold as a slave. As an adult in Rhode Island (Connecticut), he purchased his freedom and that"
"Arthur Henderson Smith Arthur Henderson Smith (July18, 1845August31, 1932) (Chinese name: 明恩溥; pinyin: ""Ming Enpu"") was a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions noted for spending 54 years as a missionary in China and writing books which presented China to foreign readers. These books include ""Chinese Characteristics"", ""Village Life in China "" and ""The Uplift of China"". In the 1920s, ""Chinese Characteristics ""was still the most widely read book on China among foreign residents there. He was born in Vernon, Connecticut, served as a soldier in the Civil War before graduating from Beloit College in 1867,"
"Lucy Wilmot Smith Lucy Wilmot Smith (November 16, 1861 - December 1, 1889) was an American teacher, journalist, editor, suffragist, and historian from the U.S. state of Kentucky. She was one of only a few women to hold an office in the American National Baptist Convention. Her teaching career began in 1877 while her journalism career began in 1884. Lucy Wilmot Smith was born November 16, 1861, in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of Margaret Smith. Though it is unclear if she was born a slave, her household was poor. Smith's education was provided for by her mother. In 1877, while"
"Aaron Smith (author) Aaron Smith is an author, freelance journalist and newspaper editor who writes for a range of print and online publications. His works have appeared in publications around the world. He has had two nonfiction books published in Australia, New Zealand, USA and the UK. Aaron Smith was born in the UK in 1969 and grew up in Tasmania, Australia. After studying environmental science at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, he worked as an actor and playwright in Melbourne, with productions in the 2003 Melbourne Comedy and 2002 Melbourne Fringe Festivals While traveling Asia and Latin America between"
"was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of British Columbia in 2002 and was the inaugural Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University, 2005. In 1974 he founded the publishing company Oolichan Books. A successful grant application to the Canada Council in 1975 enabled the press to become an independent publisher. The operation was located in Smith's hometown of Lantzville, a small seaside village on Vancouver Island. Smith now lives with his wife, Patricia Smith, also a writer, In Nanoose Bay, BC. He sold the press after 36 years. From 1988 to 1991 he was"
"surrounding Australian poetry. With his fellow poet and great friend, the late Noel Rowe, he published the anthology ""Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry"" (Pandanus Books 2006). Vivian Smith (poet) Vivian Brian Smith (born 3 June 1933) is an Australian poet. He is considered one of the most lyrical and observant Australian poets of his generation. Smith was born in Hobart, Tasmania and studied French at the University of Tasmania from which he graduated with a Master of Arts. He left Tasmania in the late 1950s and has lived since then in Sydney, where he was a longtime professor at the"