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
Ron Smith (Canadian author) Stroke" (2016), which was long-listed for the George Ryga award and won the Independent Publisher IPPY Gold Medal for autobiography/memoir (2017). Smith also reviews books, and co-edited the anthology of Canadian West Coast short fiction: "Rainshadow Stories from Vancouver Island" (1982). He also edited "Poetry Hotel: Selected Poems" by Joe Rosenblatt (1985), the "Collected Works" of Ralph Gustafson, vol. 1 and 2 (1987) and "New & Selected Poems" by W. H. New (2015). His poetry was translated by Ada Donati and published in a bilingual edition Ferrara, Italy, 2002. Ron Smith (Canadian author) Ron Smith (born 1943) is a Canadian