6/22/2023 0 Comments After Mrs Hamilton by Clare AshtonSales are global – not just the English-speaking world, but places as varied as Russia and Japan. Wilbur is already past the seventy million mark. For most authors, a good goal would be to sell a million books. He has also topped the lists for a very long time, so it is hard to argue that he still needs to be competitive. What hunger drives him? Wilbur Smith has been a very rich man for decades, so it isn’t money hunger. The Triumph of the Sun is his thirtieth straight success. How has he stayed at the top of his game for so long? This year it is forty-one years since his first novel, the bestselling When the Lion Feeds. Cordial, professional, measured.Īs always with writers, though, I’m more interested in private Wilbur. This is public Wilbur: the Big Man the jewel in his publishers’ crown. We meet in the Macmillan offices in London, the publishers with whom Wilbur enjoys “an almost family relationship.” He is dashing, in a long black coat, still slim and fit at seventy-two, with a fineness to his face that isn’t apparent in photographs. Richard Lee's 2005 interview with WILBUR SMITH
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