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
Sibyl Wilbur Sibyl Wilbur Sibyl Wilbur O'Brien Stone (May 27, 1871 - July 21, 1946), best known as Sibyl Wilbur was an American journalist known for her biography of Mary Baker Eddy. Wilbur from December 1906 – 1907 wrote a series of articles about the life of Mary Baker Eddy in the Boston magazine "Human Life". In 1907, Wilbur authored the book "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy". It was financed and published by John V. Dittemore and became the first church-authorized biography. It was reprinted numerous times. It was written from a Christian Science viewpoint and portrayed Eddy in an idealized