Wilbur Smith Biography
Wilbur Smith (Wilbur Addison Smith) was born on 9th January 1933 in Broken Hill, Zambia. He is a south African novelist specializing in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
Wilbur Smith Education Background
Wilbur Smith attended boarding school at Cordwalles Preparatory School in Natal. He attended Michaelhouse, a boarding school situated in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
In 1954 he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape.
Wilbur Smith Career
While at Michaelhouse he started a school newspaper for which he wrote the entire content, except for the sports pages. His weekly satirical column became mildly famous and was circulated as far afield as The Wykeham Collegiate and St Anne’s.
Wilbur Smith Books
- 1994: River God
- 1995: The Seventh Scroll
- 1966: The Sound of Thunder
- 1997: Birds of Prey
- 2016: Pharaoh
- 2009: Assegai
- 2011: Those in Peril
- 1977: A Sparrow Falls
- 1985: The Burning Shore
- 2005: The Triumph of the Sun
- 1986: Power of the Sword
- 1981: Men of Men
- 2001: Warlock
- 2014: Desert God
- 1972: The Sunbird
- 2003: Blue Horizon
- 1980: A Falcon Flies
- 2017: War Cry
- 1989: A Time to Die
- 1984: The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
- 2016: Predator
- 1971: The Diamond Hunters
- 1974: Eagle in the Sky
- 1975: The Eye of the Tiger
- 1978: Hungry as the Sea
- 1970: Gold Mine
- 2015: Golden Lion
- 1976: Cry Wolf
- 1979: Wild Justice
- 2013: Vicious Circle
- 1990: Golden Fox
- 2009: The Egyptian Series [Sound Recording]
- 2007: The Quest
- 1999: Monsoon
- 1987: Rage
- 1965: Dark of the Sun
- 2017: The Tiger’s Prey
- 1976: Shout at the Devil
- 2012: Wilbur Smith Early Years Collection
- 2005: The Eye of the Tiger/ Hungry as the Sea
- 1994: Pajaro De Sol
- 2013: El Destino Del Cazador
- 2014: Witwatersrand
- 1988: The Courtneys of Africa
- 2006: River God: Warlock
- 1979: Retumba El Trueno/Sound of Thunder
- 1968: Tentar Al Diablo
Wilbur Smith Filmography
- 2001: Diamond Hunters
- 1976: Shout at the Devil
- 1975: The Kingfisher Caper
- 1974: Gold
- 1968: Dark of the Sun
- 1972: The Last Lion
Wilbur Smith Pharaoh
EGYPT IS UNDER ATTACK.
Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded, All seems lost.
Taita, advisor to the Pharaoh, prepares for the enemy’s final, fatal push. The ex-slave, now general of Tamose’s armies, is never more ingenious than when all hope is dashed. And this is Egypt’s most desperate hour.
With the timely arrival of an old ally, the tide is turned and the Egyptian army feasts upon its retreating foe. But upon his victorious return to Luxor, Taita is seized and branded a traitor. Tamose is dead and a poisonous new era has begun. The new Pharaoh has risen — and he must be stopped…
From the glittering temples of Luxor to the Citadel of Sparta, PHARAOH is an intense and powerful novel magnificently transporting you to a time of threat, blood and glory. Master storyteller, Wilbur Smith, is at the very peak of his powers.
Wilbur Smith Predator
THEY MURDERED HIS WIFE.
THEY DESTROYED HIS FUTURE.
NOW THEY HAVE TO PAY.
Two men are responsible for the death of Hector Cross’ wife and only one is left alive: Johnny Congo – psychopath, extortionist, murderer, and the bane of Cross’s life. He caught him before and let him go. Now, Hector wants him dead. So does the US government.
Congo is locked up on Death Row in the most secure prison in the free world, counting down the days until his execution. He’s got two weeks. He wants out. He’s escaped before and knows he can again, and with whizz kid D’Shonn Brown enlisted, he might just have a chance.
Cross, still licking his wounds from his last bruising encounter with Congo, is back and ready for work. In the middle of the rough Atlantic stands oil supertanker Bannock A. Terrorist activity in the area has triggered panic and there’s only one person they can trust to protect her.
What is promised as a cakewalk turns out to be much more, a mission that will test Cross to his emotional and physical limits. But a life spent in the SAS and private security has left Cross hard-wired for pain and as he is thrown into the bull pit once more, he will not stop until he has snared his prey.
Hector Cross is Predator.
Wilbur Smith Egyptian Series
The ‘Egyptian’ novels are The Quest, and River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock. Set in the land of the ancient Pharaohs, this quartet vividly describes ancient Egypt and has a cast of unforgettable characters.
Wilbur Smith Family; Wife
Wilbur Smith married his first wife, Anne, but they later divorced. They have two children Shaun and Christian. He married his second wife, Jewel, in 1964 and they had a son Lawrence but they later divorced. In 1971 he married a young divorcee Danielle Thomas until she died in 1999 from brain cancer. In May 2000 he married Mokhiniso Rakhimova, 39 years younger than him.
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Wilbur Smith