Wilbur Addison Smith (born January 9, 1933 in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)) is a best-selling novelist. As a baby, he became sick with cerebral malaria for ten days. Doctors had presumed he might have brain damage if he survived at all, but he survived the malaria and grew up normally. He grew up with a mother whose interests included novels of escapade and excitement, which piqued his interest; his father dissuaded him from pursuing writing, … Wikipedia
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