Wilbur Smith 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
Marcia Wilbur Marcia Wilbur Marcia Wilbur is an American writer, activist, free software and free speech advocate, poet, maker, linux-elitist, author of DMCA, a "Decade Under the DMCA" and in 2009 a book about a decade of the DMCA. Marcia was contributing editor for Suite 101 in the Computing Life section from 1999 through 2002 where she wrote articles relating to computing and computer law. Editor for DMOZ copyright section 2001-2002. In 2000 she participated in Openlaw DVD discuss. She assisted Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society through participation and in writing an amicus curae for the 2600 v. MPAA case.