Wilbur Smith Mega Collection - 33 Books

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Wilbur Addison Smith (born January 9, 1933 in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)) is a best-selling novelist.

As a baby, he became sick with cerebral malaria for ten days. Doctors had presumed he might have brain damage if he survived at all, but he survived the malaria and grew up normally. He grew up with a mother whose interests included novels of escapade and excitement, which piqued his interest; his father dissuaded him from pursuing writing, advising him to get established in a more mainstream profession.

He attended preparatory school and took his education towards Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape. Educated at Cordwalles Preparatory School, Michaelhouse and Rhodes University, all in South Africa, he decided he would become a journalist after developing a passion for writing. As a journalist he wrote about social conditions in South Africa, but his father's advice to "Get a real job" was enough for him to resentfully change his mind to become a tax accountant. While he was working, he married at the age of twenty-four, though it culminated in divorce. After his divorce, he began to write freely, whatever he wanted.

He went through the next phase of his life writing in his own time, but eventually felt like he needed to change his ways in writing if he wanted to get serious. He chose to imagine places away from "actuality" and write in such a way that would be vivid for his readers. This led him to write his first published book, When the Lion Feeds (1964). He wrote this first novel while working for Salisbury Inland Revenue. This book captured readers' attention and even a deal in the film industry. The success that it achieved encouraged him to become a full-time writer.

Smith believed he could flourish in the world of writing, so he ended his previous employment to begin writing professionally. He states that Africa is his major inspiration, and currently he has over 30 novels published. Smith now lives in London, but avows an abiding concern for the peoples and wildlife of his native continent.

In 2002, Wilbur Smith was granted the Inaugural Sport Shooting Ambassador Award by the World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities.

Books by Smith often fall into one of three series, which reflect either the families that the book features, or the time frame it is set in.



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