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Southern African author Wilbur Addison Smith was born in 1933 in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Although he wanted to become a journalist, pressure from his father led him to pursue an accounting career. Smith attended Rhodes University (South Africa) for a Bachelor's degree in commerce and later worked for Inland Revenue Service. His internationally bestselling novels focus on the history of southern Africa, with an emphasis on the importance of sixteenth and seventeenth century events. Many of Smith's thirty novels have been turned into movies or mini-series, including Shout at the Devil, The Mercenaries (based on The Dark of the Sun), and The Seventh Scroll (based on both River God and The Seventh Scroll). Smith lives in London.

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