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
Wayland Wilbur Rice He married Dorothy B. Gorton, and had two daughters, Dorothy and Nancy. They lived in Providence, Rhode Island. Wayland Wilbur Rice Wayland Wilbur Rice (April 14, 1894 – 1975) was a businessman and chemical engineer, and the Vice President and Secretary of the Barreled Sunlight Paint Company in Providence, Rhode Island. He was born in Providence to businessman Herbert Wayland Rice and his wife, Jennie Potter Wilbur. He graduated from Brown University in 1917. He was a member of the Delta Phi. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1917, he was a Sergeant in the Gas Defense Service