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
Dan Smith (British author) down. He was Chairman of the Board of the London-based NGO Institute for War and Peace Reporting from 1993 until 2006. He was awarded the OBE in 2002. Dan Smith has been publishing in a variety of formats since the mid-1970s. His main works are: Smith is also responsible for over 100 articles in journals and periodicals and chapters in anthologies, as well as a number of reports, of which the two most significant are: Smith authored three crime novels, all published by Macmillan: "Fathers’ Law" (1986), "Serious Crimes" (1987) and "The Fourth Crow" (1989). Dan Smith (British author) Dan