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About Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.

He gained a film contract with his first published novel, When the Lion Feeds, which encouraged him to become a full-time writer. He went on to write three long chronicles of the South African experience, which became best-sellers. He acknowledged his publisher Charles Pick's advice to "write about what you know best"; his work focuses on southern African ways of life, with emphasis on hunting, mining, romance, and conflict.

By the time of his death in 2021, he had published 49 books. They have sold at least 140 million copies.

Wilbur Smith writes about Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Courtney family (fictitious characters), fiction, South africa, fiction, and Africa, fiction. Their best-known work is River god.

On FindMyTBR we track 57 books by Wilbur Smith, 56 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Afrikas Horn, Birds of Prey (Unabridged), and Blue Horizon: Courtney, Book 11 (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.