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Wilbur Smith, Finest-Promoting Writer of Swashbuckling Novels, Dies at 88
Wilbur Addison Smith was born on Jan. 9, 1933, in Damaged Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). He was named for Wilbur Wright, the aviation pioneer. His father, Herbert, was a rancher who grew to become a sheet steel employee. His mom, Elfreda, was a painter who inspired his studying. He contracted cerebral malaria when
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