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Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets, along with his friend Anthony Hecht , of the World War II generation , Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance.
The Sunbird is a 1972 novel by Wilbur Smith about an archeological dig. The novel depicts a search for a Phoenician city in modern Botswana. [1] [2]The novel was a favourite of Smith's, who claimed it was heavily influenced by H. Rider Haggard. [3]
The Courtney Novels are a series of twenty four novels published between 1964 and 2024 by Wilbur Smith. [1] They chronicle the lives of the Courtney family, from the 1660s through until 1987. [ 2 ]
A Falcon Flies is a novel by Wilbur Smith. It was the first in a series of books known as The Ballantyne Novels. [1] The Rhodesian Bush War of the 1970s inspired Smith to research and write a book set in historical Rhodesia. He originally planned it as one novel but it ended up as a trilogy. [2]
When the Lion Feeds (1964) is the debut novel of Rhodesian writer Wilbur Smith. It introduces the Courtney family, whose adventures Smith would tell in many subsequent novels. In 2012, Smith said the novel remained his favourite because it was his first to be published. [1]
Power of the Sword (1986) is a novel by Wilbur Smith set before and during World War II. [1] [2]The book features a critical portrayal of Hendrik Verwoerd who Smith described as "probably the most evil man in South Africa's history.
Wilbur Joseph "Jack" Cash (May 2, 1900 – July 1, 1941) was an American journalist known for writing The Mind of the South (1941), a controversial and influential interpretation of the character and history of the American South. A protégé of H. L. Mencken and Alfred A. and Blanche Knopf, Cash suffered throughout his life from depression. He ...