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
Peter Marshall (author, born 1939) Peter Marshall (author, born 1939) Peter Marshall (1939-1972) was a British novelist. Peter Marshall was born in 1939. At 18 years old he became infected with polio, which left him almost completely paralyzed. He wrote an autobiography ("Two Lives") about his life before and after the illness, for which he received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1963. He wrote two novels, "The Raging Moon" (1964) and "Excluded from the Cemetery" (1966). The movie "The Raging Moon" was based on his novel by the same title. He lived and worked in a home in Surrey. He died at age 33