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
Ray Smith (author) Ray Smith (author) Ray Smith, "James Raymond Smith", (born 12 Dec 1941 at Inverness, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He was born in Cape Breton and educated at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (B.A. 1963), and at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (M.A. 1985). He worked as an instructor in English at Dawson College, Montreal, until his retirement in 2007. In the early 1970s he joined with authors Clark Blaise, Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood and John Metcalf to form the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group. Smith's